Reality Is The Only Obstacle To Happiness.

The Government Cannot Afford To Have A Country Made Up Entirely Of Rich People, Because Rich People Pay So Little Tax That The Government Would Quickly Go Bankrupt. This Is Why Government Men Always Tell Us That Labor Is Man's Noblest Calling. Government Needs Labor To Pay Its Upkeep.

Few Expected Very Much Of Franklin Roosevelt On Inauguration Day In 1933. Like Barack Obama Seventy-six Years Later, He Was Succeeding A Failed Republican President, And Americans Had Voted For Change. What That Change Might Be Roosevelt Never Clearly Said, Probably Because He Himself Didn't Know.

It Was Dramatic To Watch My Grandmother Decapitate A Turkey With An Ax The Day Before Thanksgiving. Nowadays The Expense Of Hiring Grandmothers For The Ax Work Would Probably Qualify All Turkeys So Honored With Gourmet Status.

My Natural Instinct After Doing Something Shameful Is Not To Rush Into The Street Boasting About It But To Put On Dark Glasses And Head For The Next County, Hoping Nobody Notices I've Been In The Neighborhood.

The Early Commentators Who Put Down The Pre-presidential Roosevelt As An Empty-headed Young Lightweight, All Ambition And No Talent, Now Seem Comically Wrong To A Modern Book-reading, Movie-going, Television-watching, Legend-loving American Public Conditioned To Think Of Him As One Of The Presidential Giants On The Order Of Washington And Lincoln.