"[T]he very first official thing I did in my administration—and it was on the first day of it too—was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways."
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain
“No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”