Gold has worked down from Alexanders time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory. – Bernard Baruch
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. – Gore Vidal
