In This I Believe

Via DougJ at Balloon Juice:

In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

You'll get no argument from me on that score.

Thus Spake...

Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race--small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.

--Chief Sitting Bull, speaking at the Powder River Conference in 1877