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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.
When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.
China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.
China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to read more
Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard read more
[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard of the fundamental equality as regards the right to self-preservation, the creature in human shape who acts in this way is to be treated by any and all other rational humans as a wild, clever, and therefore very dangerous animal, to be destroyed (if necessary) in order to safeguard the rest.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
