Quote by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

• Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

• Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey,
  Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
  Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade:
  A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
  but a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
  When once destroyed can never be supplied.