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It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also read more
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two read more
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.
Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.
Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems read more
Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.
