If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really read more

I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really just believe that they themselves are good for nothing. I mean, how many leftists are animated by a quite reasonable self-loathing? In their hearts they know that they are not going to become scholars or inventors or industrialists or even ordinary good kind people. So they need a way to achieve that smugness for which the left is so justifiably famous. They need a way to achieve self-esteem without merit. Well, there is politics. In an egalitarian world everything will be controlled by politics, and politics requires no merit.

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] read more

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

If we truly cared about our children and future generations, instead of demagoging about them, we'd worry more about saving read more

If we truly cared about our children and future generations, instead of demagoging about them, we'd worry more about saving liberty than saving Social Security.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Without a country, I am not a man.