"Missing the point is a very fine art; and has been carried to something like perfection by politicians and Pressmen to-day"

Missing the point is a very fine art; and has been carried to something like perfection by politicians and Pressmen to-day. For the point is generally a very sharp point; and is, moreover, sharp at both ends. That is to say that both parties would probably impale themselves in an uncomfortable manner if they did not manage to avoid it altogether.

-Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays (1917)