Category: Thought

The Bill of Rights isn’t for the prom queen. The Bill of Rights isn’t for the high-school quarterback. They’re gonna be treated fairly; they always do fine. The Bill of Rights is truly for those who might be unorthodox, who might have an unusual idea, who might not look like everybody else.

The Bill of Rights is to protect minorities, whether it’s the colour of your skin or the shade of your ideology.

Our intellectual and moral natures come into play only when we discriminate and decide for ourselves. Just so far as this discrimination and decision are taken away from us, we are deprived of the most essential element of our manhood and womanhood, and are turned into mere tools propelled from without.

We seem to have come upon a time of utter infidelity to general principles, except that most vicious one that there are no general principles.

Taxation must be, potentially at least, co-extensive with government. The way to reduce it is to severely limit the function of government to the maximising of liberty, to abolish privilege, and to exercise due vigilance over the expenditure of the State revenue.

The ethical basis of Individualism is . . . the necessity of such coercion in order that freedom may be at the maximum — in order that personal rights, and the proprietary rights which arise out of them, may be, so far as practicable, sustained.

The flowing tide is with Socialism. But tides ebb as well as flow.

[H]ow impossible is democracy save when the sphere of government is very limited.

[H]ow impossible is democracy save when the sphere of government is very limited.