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The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; read more
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but read more
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
Power tires only those who do not have it.
Power tires only those who do not have it.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or read more
It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or scientists turned commissars. For if philosophers become kings or scientists commissars, they become politicians, and the powers given to the state are powers given to men who are rulers of states, men subject to all the limitations and temptations of their dangerous craft. Unless this is borne in mind, there will be a dangerous optimistic tendency to sweep aside doubts and fears as irrelevant, since, in the state that the projectors have in mind, power will be exercised by men of a wisdom and degree of moral virtue that we have not yet seen. It won't. It will be exercised by men who will be men first and rulers next and scientists and saints long after.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If read more
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
