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A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright.
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright.
Where things have not changed at all, there is the least likelihood of revolution.
Where things have not changed at all, there is the least likelihood of revolution.
The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it read more
The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the read more
Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.
Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in read more
Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.
