A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
– Edward R. Murrow
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
– Mark Twain
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December 14th, 2001 | Comments are closed
 War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. – Thomas Paine December 12th, 2001 | Comments are closed
December 11th, 2001 | Comments are closed
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and thus clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary – H.L. Mencken December 10th, 2001 | Comments are closed
The triumph of capitalism is living proof that you can’t beat the laws of supply and demand. Drug prohibition is proof that some people will try anyway. – Unknown December 9th, 2001 | Comments are closed
Drug prohibition is another example of the triumph of hope over experience. Proof positive that stupidity, not hydrogen, is still the most abundant element in the universe. – Unknown December 8th, 2001 | Comments are closed
Capitalism will always win out in the long run. The job of the libertarian is to make the long run as short as possible. – Perry de Havilland, said at a ‘Brian’s Friday’ event December 7th, 2001 | Comments are closed
Christopher Hitchens is in typically ebullient form on The Nation as he writes The Ends of War, in which he makes a remark that I suspect is destined to became a classic quote:
Outstanding. Just for good measure, he yet again carves up Noam Chomsky in his Parthian shot. In a battle of wits, nauseating Noam is unarmed. This whole article is well worth a read. I am only just starting to get used to the idea of not reflexively thinking of Christopher Hitchens as the enemy. December 6th, 2001 | Comments are closed
December 6th, 2001 | Comments are closed
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. – Robert A. Heinlein December 5th, 2001 | Comments are closed
Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness Positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. December 4th, 2001 | Comments are closed
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