Why the American Metropolis Stinks
"The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution."
—Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia
Cities are not built on a humane scale. They are usually cesspools of crime, corruption, legal plunder, loose morals, and bad political preferences for welfarism and Big Government.
