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Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not read more
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.
No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.
We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our read more
We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for read more
I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the read more
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.