For Want of a Nail, The Shoe Was Lost Proverb

For Want of a Nail, The Shoe Was Lost Proverb; For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; For want of the shoe, the horse was lost; For want of the horse, the rider was lost; For want of the rider, the battle was lost; For want of the battle, the kingdom was lost; All from the want of a nail. A similar history is being written about the want of Journalists and the loss of a democracy as the proximate result