Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
Source: Following the Equator, ch. 51, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, 1897.
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), US novelist, journalist, river pilot; The Great American humorist was also known as The People's Author and creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.