According to
http://www.snopes2.com/autos/law/eno.htm, we owe many of our modern traffic laws to a man who never learned to drive.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
