I propose we leave the privilege of "the last word" to Peter Cooper:
"A true history of human events would show
that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results
of sudden impulses and accident than of that reason
of which we so much boast.’’ — Peter Cooper
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
