Category: Thought

I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Voting is the engine that drives our democracy. It needs a 21st Century update. We need to move past partisanship and start to see the humanity in people.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

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

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.