I can measure the motions of bodies,” Sir Isaac Newton once observed, “but I cannot measure human folly. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Men of conservative temperament have long suspected that one thing leads to another.

However, Hoover had converted the simple business ritual of reassurance into a major instrument of public policy.

It is a well-established, though perhaps somewhat transparent, technique of argument, on encountering something which cannot easily be reconciled with preferred belief, to point to the exceptions. What does not invariably exist is then held not to exit.