David

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.”
― H. L. Mencken

“Like many isolated people, they were wrapped up in themselves and not too interested in the world outside.”
― V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River

“There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Nations do not plunge at once into ruin - governments do not change suddenly - the causes which bring about the final blow, are scarcely perceptible in the beginning; but they increase in numbers, and in power; they press harder and harder upon the energies and virtue of a people; and the last steps only are alarmingly hurried and irregular. A republic without industry, economy, and integrity, is Samson shorn of his locks. A luxurious and idle republic! Look at the phrase! - The words were never made to be married together; every body sees it would be death to one of them.”
― Lydia Maria Francis Child, American Frugal Housewife: Dedicated to Those Who are Not Ashamed of Economy