Just for Steve on the 17th-century Scottish Highlanders:
It is not strange that the haughty and warlike MacDonalds, despising peaceful industry, yet envying the fruits of that industry, should have fastened a succession of quarrels on the people of Inverness. In the reign of Charles the Second, it had been apprehended that the town would be stormed and plundered by those rude neighbors…. Their demand was that a heavy tribute should be paid to them….
– Thomas Babington Macaulay
(H/T: Cafe Hayek)
