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It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children
It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children
The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the read more
The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no read more
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on read more
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this planet.
Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'etre to the imperfection of man and can read more
Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'etre to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if read more
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody read more
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask read more
Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler... I'm Doctor Spin.