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Freedom...refer[s] to a social relationship among people- namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom read more
Freedom...refer[s] to a social relationship among people- namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them read more
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, read more
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
No one has a right to happiness.
No one has a right to happiness.
A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.
True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.
In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.
Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to read more
Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -and both commonly succeed, and are right.
