But however this may be, will the discontented peoples of Europe be willing for a generation to come so to order their lives that an appreciable part of their daily produce may be available to meet a foreign payment, the reason of which, whether as between Europe and America, or as between Germany and the rest of Europe, does not spring Compellingly from their sense of justice or duty?
"The Economic Consequences of the Peace"
John Maynard Keynes
We need go back only to the time of Drake and the sea-dogs, the Elizabethan Age, when all North America was a frontier, almost wholly unknown, Compellingly alluring to all bold men.
"The Passing of the Frontier A Chronicle of the Old West, Volume 26 in The Chronicles Of America Series"
Emerson Hough