In baseball there are generalists, who keep their eye on the ball and see the big picture; football is full of special-duty charac...ters who are very limited in terms of their range but have depth. Baseball represents America before the frontier ended, when there was plenty of space and plenty of time, and philosophic anarchists roamed around on verdant fields "doing their thing" with a free and reckless abandon. The game is relaxing and not particularly taxing on the players, who play many times each week. Football is tremendously difficult on the players and is so tiring that sixty minutes of clock time--which amounts to several hours of real time--exhausts them. Baseball developed when we thought nature was a limitless reservoir and we would always live in abundance. Football reflects a different world view; everything has to be fought for, resources are precious, hostile people (guards, monster men) are everywhere and in such a world you have to grab what you can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had now formed a clear and settled opinion, that the people of America were well warranted to resist a claim that their fellow-s...ubjects in the mother-country should have the entire command of their fortunes, by taxing them without their consent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appeti...te for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a "taxing- machine;" to the contented, a "machine for securing property." Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is no part of the functions of the National Government to find employment for the people, and if we were to appropriate a hundr...ed millions for his purpose, we should only be taxing 40 millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »