The American way is the way ...

The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?
 Cullen Hightower

Quotes from the same author

In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.
 Cullen Hightower
A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.
 Cullen Hightower
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
 Cullen Hightower
After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.
 Cullen Hightower
The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.
 Cullen Hightower