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The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that read more
The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help.".
The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither read more
The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither accorded him a superior status to sustain his confidence nor made it easy for him to acquire an unquestioned sense of social usefulness. For he derives his sense of usefulness mainly from directing, instructing, and planning- from minding other people's business- and is bound to feel superfluous and neglected where people believe themselves competent to manage individual and communal affairs, and are impatient of supervision and regulation. A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.
A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best.
Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best.
