Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. – John Leonard, New York Times, 2 November 1975
But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power. – Friedrich List
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me. – William Cowper