One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

Men and Melons are hard to know.

While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.