free-and-fair-for-all

Updated: June 21, 2025

Your idea of a gentleman was put forward by lazy fakirs who were living off of what their ungentlemanly ancestors had annexed, and who didn't want to be disturbed. So they 'fixed' the game by passing these rules you and your kind are fools enough to abide by that is, you are fools, unless you haven't got brains enough to get on in a free-and-fair-for-all."

David Graham Phillips - The Deluge