David

“Before long four dozen balls lay scattered at the base of the fence, a harvest of dirty white fruit.”
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

“As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with their persons, the state is not far from its fall.”
― Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

“Buster was queer as a cat fart.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“When economic power desires to be left alone it uses the philosophy of laissez faire to discourage political restraint upon economic freedom. When it wants to make use of the police power of the state to subdue rebellions and discontent in the ranks of its helots, it justifies the use of political coercion and the resulting suppression of liberties by insisting that peace is more precious than freedom and that its only desire is social peace.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics