Americans shrug if Americans say the largest city in the USA is Omaha, but Americans will vehemently attack a newspaper that reports that Americans sometimes think that the biggest city in the US is Omaha.
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
You can’t overstate the power of ideas, especially bad ideas, and super-especially bad ideas that are really just manifestations of emotional states such as envy, vengefulness, enmity, sloth, and greed.
Americans shrug if Americans say the largest city in the USA is Omaha, but Americans will vehemently attack a newspaper that reports that Americans sometimes think that the biggest city in the US is Omaha.