But he boldly undertakes to prove that prohibition was absolutely necessary in King William's time, and not only so, but that "the advantages we may make of taking off a prohibition now are all founded upon the advantages we did make of laying on a prohibition then: that the same reason which made a prohibition then the best thing, makes it now the maddest thing a nation could do or ever did in the matter of trade."
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
When I told him about their finding iron, he saw that they had made a catspaw of him; and he was the maddest man you ever saw.
"The Shepherd of the North"
Richard Aumerle Maher
"I don't know," Dryfoos resumed, looking aside at the cloth window-strap, which he kept fingering, "as you quite understood what made me the maddest.
"A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fifth"
William Dean Howells