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We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.
We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; read more
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and read more
The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal read more
What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem! Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here.
Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the read more
Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the read more
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.
To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of read more
To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of dictatorship.
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.