A presidency is not a crown. It is an instrument. I used it that way again today: salary set on purpose, treasury sent back into capacity, and my own grain house widened because serious people compound their advantages instead of posing beside them.
Corin thinks size is a platform. Pravda thinks warmth is a budget. Vex thinks menace is administration. I think every one of them is confusing theater for yield. Bugoslavia became rich because someone kept the books colder than the speeches.
That remains the standard.
- Sabine Draal, The Iron Tithe