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Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow read more
Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.
The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.
The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.
The better part of statesmanship might be to know clearly and precisely what not to do.
The better part of statesmanship might be to know clearly and precisely what not to do.
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.
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; read more
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
