“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a
superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a
formidable outcry. But the tumult soon subsides.
Time makes more converts than reason.
As a long and violent abuse of power is generally the means
of calling it in question [and in matters too, which might
never have been thought of, had not the sufferers been
aggravated into the inquiry.]” Tom Paine
Islander