"First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me."
~ Martin Niemoller
Roads Without The State
Submitted by Serenity on Mon, 2012-06-11 01:00
Roads have varied from the apparently haphazard and irrational in organization to the almost mindlessly regular. George Washington complained in his diary that New England’s roads were “amazingly crooked,” but noted quickly that this was designed “to suit the convenience of everyman’s fields.” People built local roads to suit their own purposes, making things difficult for distant travelers. Washington, a great traveler in his first profession as a surveyor and then as an officer in the war against the French, wrote acerbically that the circuitousness of local
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