“It would be interesting to see whether a nation governed by small boys would not be a better, happier nation than those ruled by old men whose prejudices may or may not be conditioned by ulcerous stomachs and perhaps a little drying up of the stream of love.”

– John Steinbeck,
Sea of Cortez, p. 174, (1941)

NOTE: Steinbeck wrote this exactly 80 years ago, when the predictable Pendulum of society was in precisely the position it occupies now, causing Steinbeck’s observation to feel timely and contemporary, don’t you agree? – Indy