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Individuality is freedom lived.
Individuality is freedom lived.
Crime, like disease, is not interesting; it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is read more
Crime, like disease, is not interesting; it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it.
The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you read more
The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefully feel for pressure points. If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Suggest a recess or another meeting.
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast read more
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like read more
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the read more
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.