Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and
as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan
Beauty itself doth of itself persuade / The eyes of men without an orator.
-Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece (1594)The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of
itself.
Ronald Reagan