“A free people, forgetting that it has a soul to be cared for, devotes all of its energies to its material advancement. If it makes war, it is to subserve its commercial interests. The citizens copy after the State, and regard wealth, pomp, and luxury as the great goods of life. Such a nation creates wealth rapidly, and distributes it badly. Thence the two extremes, of monstrous opulence and mostorous misery…”
-Albert Pike
Man, ain't that true!