The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on the social body; but unlike medical surgeons, reformers are not on guard against unpredictable side effects which may divert the course of reform toward unwanted results. Moreover, quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.
The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.
It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or read more
It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or scientists turned commissars. For if philosophers become kings or scientists commissars, they become politicians, and the powers given to the state are powers given to men who are rulers of states, men subject to all the limitations and temptations of their dangerous craft. Unless this is borne in mind, there will be a dangerous optimistic tendency to sweep aside doubts and fears as irrelevant, since, in the state that the projectors have in mind, power will be exercised by men of a wisdom and degree of moral virtue that we have not yet seen. It won't. It will be exercised by men who will be men first and rulers next and scientists and saints long after.
Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.
Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole read more
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
N.B.: This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms. - Gandhi, An Autobiography.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
