The Boston Tea Party was a big deal politically. But it didn’t do much to change the flavor of the water in Boston Harbor.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” draws its title, in part from a line where the books’s main character, Elizabeth says:   I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine    If we look at the context, we can see that Miss Lucas had previously affirmed Darcy’s right to be proud, while Mary responds by defining the word “pride” and distinguishing it from “vanity”.