"One cannot but wonder at this constantly
recurring phrase 'getting something for nothing,'
as if it were the peculiar and perverse ambition
of disturbers of society. Except for our animal
outfit, practically all that we have is handed to
us gratis. Can the most complacent reactionary
flatter himself that he invented the art of writing
or the printing press, or discovered his religious,
economic and moral convictions, or any of the
devices which supply him with meat and raiment
or any of the sources of such pleasures as he may
derive from literature or the fine arts? In short,
civilization is little else than getting something for
nothing."
--James Harvey Robinson,
historian, (1863-1936)