Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
mk · 3885 days ago · link · · parent · post: Give me a great quote from something you're reading, have read recently.
-Barbara Tuchman, The March of FollyAs a contemporary Laocoon, the unavoidable Edmund Burke, perceived and said, "The retention of America was worth far more to the mother country economically, politically and even morally than any sum which might be raised by taxation, or even than any principal so-called of the Constitution." In short, although possession was of greater value than principle, nevertheless the greater was thrown away for the less, the unworkable pursued at the sacrifice of the possible. This phenomenon is one of the commonest of governmental follies.