I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. - George Bernard Shaw

Tis Fate's decree. For know, rash youth, that in this star crost world,
Fate drives us all to find our chiefest good
In what we can, and not in what we would.

Construction cumbers the ground with institutions made by busybodies. Destruction clears it and gives us breathing space and liberty.

The vital force that drives men to throw away their lives and those of others in the pursuit of an imaginative impulse, reckless of its apparent effect on human welfare, is, like all natural forces, given to us in enormous excess to provide against an enormous waste. Therefore men, instead of economizing it by consecrating it to the service of their highest impulses, grasp at a phrase in a newspaper article, or in the speech of a politician on a vote-catching expedition, as an excuse for exercising it violently, just as a horse turned out to grass will gallop and kick merely to let off steam. The shallowness of the ideals of men ignorant of history is their destruction.