The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.