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“In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.”

Years States Law Boys Taste Years Ago Southern Mississippi

Author:Phil Ochs

“Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste”

Giving States Age Taste Presses Architecture Shops Toys Royal Printing Bad Taste Printing Press Druids

Book:An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography

Source: An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography

“To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one's fellow men, and (c) delicately and unceasingly amused according to one's taste. It is my contention that, if this definition be accepted, there is no country in the world wherein a man constituted as I am - a man of my peculiar weakness, vanities, appetites, and aversions - can be so happy as he can be in the United States.”

“In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it, the term "libertarian" has been used instead. It may be the answer; but for my part I find it singularly unattractive. For my taste it carries too much the flavor of a manufactured term and of a substitute. What I should want is a word which describes the party of life, the party that favors free growth and spontaneous evolution. But I have racked my brain unsuccessfully to find a descriptive term which commends itself.”