Category: Thought

A “just war” is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Everyone is shy — it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.*

Socialist policy is a permanent menace to the liberty and security of citizens, and cannot therefore be the policy of any government, the primary duty of which is to exact respect for internal and external security.

[C]apital does not increase automatically by means of compound interest, as Socialists are pleased to assert. . . .

[T]he moment you limit free speech, it’s not free speech.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?