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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.
The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.
The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.
The American people want to preserve their American heritage, and they have the quaint belief that public lands belong to read more
The American people want to preserve their American heritage, and they have the quaint belief that public lands belong to them as much as to the people of the state where the lands are located.
Justice is incidental to law and order.
Justice is incidental to law and order.
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it read more
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. - Reflections on Life.
You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.
When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.
None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than read more
None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.
