VAUGHAN

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income--which he then spends sending his son to college.

It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.