“Another teacher introduced me to the H.L. Mencken quote that “for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.””
Hot Earth Dreams: What if severe climate change happens, and humans survive?
Quotes by Frank H. Severance
“And so, it seems to me, it is with our prisons. They are filled with criminals which our virtuous State has made what they are by its iniquitous laws, its grinding monopolies, and the horrible social conditions that result from them. We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. Is it too much to expect that the new social conditions which must follow the abolition of all interference with the production and distribution of wealth will in the end so change the habits and propensities of men that our jails and prisons, our policemen and our soldiers,”
The Individualist Anarchists: Anthology of Liberty, 1881-1908
Frank H. Severance
Frank H. Severance was an American author, historian, and bibliographer, best known for his contributions to the literature of the New York State and the history of the American West. Born in 1856, Se...