Random E.B. quote

Dissatisfied with your own writing? Just use someone else's. I flipped open one of my E.B. White books and happened upon this timely quote:

"I hope that belief never is made to appear mandatory. One of our founders, in 1787, said, 'Even the diseases of the people should be represented.' Those were strange, noble words, and they have endured. They were on television yesterday. I distrust the slightest hint of a standard for political rectitude, knowing that it will open the way for persons in authority to set arbitrary standards of human behavior."