Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic read more
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is -- and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.
No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties read more
No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties or subsidies, for the monetary and banking laws, for the state of law in regard to corporate privileges and immunities, for the actual status of property rights, for agricultural or for labor policies, until he had gone behind the general claims and the abstract justifications and had identified the specifically interested groups which promoted the specific law.
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
