“Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.” — Norman Douglas Quote

“Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.”

“Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.”

“A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.”

“I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess that little extra authority on our beliefs. I also see myself as a Canadian writer.”

“The EPA has no legal authority to expand the definition of navigable waters under the Clean Water Act, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear.”

“The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.”