The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the
relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be
confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. -Edward R. Murrow, 1908 - 1965 

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
–Carrie Chapman Catt (1859 - 1947) 

 Catt speaks truly and it is the unwritten customs that stifle new ideas and improvements more than the written law.

I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
–John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892 - 1973 

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
–Frederic Bastiat 

Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
–Kurt Herbert Alder 

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man, as of all the simpler mammals, is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is security.
-H. L. Mencken, Baltimore Evening Sun, 7/16/1923 

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
-Francis Bacon, Essays, 24, Of Innovations