Samuel L. Clemens, using the pseudonym Mark Twain, publishes A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, a satirical criticism of predatory social institutions. In chapter 11, paragraph 4 he writes:
The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth’s political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does.
[restored 5/15/2022] Thanks to the Foundation for Economic Education for this entry.
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