Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what has worked with what sounded good. In area after area- crime, education, housing, race relations- the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.
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Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to attain excellence. To discover what a man truly craves but knows he cannot have we must find the field in which he advocates absolute equality. By this test Communists are frustrated Capitalists.
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If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
