Category: Thought

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Conservatives want to stand up for ordinary Americans, and that means ending corporate welfare.

Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.

>Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it’s remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver’s license.

When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state … This violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.