Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you’ve gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the...

The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself to having one inadequacy supplant another and a new regime triumph over the...

Jokes are many things. ‘Funny’ is only one of them.

Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military command. When the attack finally came, Vienamese civilians were defenseless.

By connecting Oswald to several parts of the JFK–Almeida coup plan, those working for Marcello, Trafficante, and Rosselli could ensure that when Oswald surfaced as the main suspect, the CIA and other agencies would have...

Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that...

There is a sort of mental treasonThat smothers dreams outside of reason

In this, then, lies their power of understanding–understanding, without words, what is authentic or inauthentic. Thus it was the grimaces, the histrionisms, the false gestures and, above all, the false tones and cadences of the...

Our laws are like the software that runs our country. All the laws for a country, together, are called its legal code, just like computer software is written using code.

Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so many members of my generation used to dream of. We dreamed of such...

People Power is too often an inverted fairy story – the triumph of innocence coming at the start and the Ugly Sisters of intrigue and ambition coming on stage in triumph for the final curtain.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

…kuota atau sayap wanita adalah seperti tongkat. Ia membantu anda bangun tetapi jika anda mahu berlari, anda perlu membuang tongkat tersebut.

All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it.

During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by ‘preventing worse language.’ In the military it would be...

The new post-Saddam Iraq had no secular heros.

When it comes to politics, you don’t get that immediate effect,

The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women, and the discourse of feminism was specifically invoked.

Voters have soaked up a noggin full of negativity over the last twenty years, with an economy we had to bring back from collapse, plus terrorist attacks and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don’t...

After Political independence, Africans needed mental freedom for them to advocate for economical independence

La izquierda y la derecha unidas jamás serán vencidas.

Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be...

In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into...

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician’s spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

I am naïve and I have fucked up but I tell you something else. I believe in change. I don’t mind getting my hands dirty because my hands are dirty already. I don’t mind giving...

Anyone who has lived here for long enough has seen it all before: opposing sides of the political spectrum ferociously criticising each other, getting hot under the collar about this and that, bringing up all...

It is hard to hear the truth from people who get paid to distort it.

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

Don’t let them tell us stories

We do not get to vote on who owns what, or on relations in factory and so on, for all this is deemed beyond the sphere of the political, and it is illusory to expect...

I’m a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don’t you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of “divisive” in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of...

And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is...

Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don’t insult anybody with their performances, and they neither sing nor dance politics. So I...

Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away…whether is it is the war on poverty, drugs, terrorism…or the current Hitler of the day, an appeal...

The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining…and...

La democracia, como yo la veo, es una forma de oligarquía en la que el pueblo, ignorante, cree participar, pero en realidad las elecciones no son más que una coartada para que, aunque rotando, manden...

When the middle classes get passionate about politics, they’re arguing about their treats—their tax breaks and their investments. When the poor get passionate about politics, they’re fighting for their lives. Politics will always mean more...

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.

As the nation divided into Federalists and Republicans, each group called the other the worst name possible: “party”. Most Americans feared the idea of party; believing that a society should unite to achieve the public...

I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag’s full of rubbish. And I want to do something that matters with my life. Right now I’d like...

Apakah ada di dunia ini seorang politikus dengan hati mulia dan niat lurus? Apakah masih ada seorang Gandhi? Seorang Nelson Mandela? Yang berteriak tentang moralitas di depan banyak orang,lantas semua orang berdiri rapat di belakangnya,...

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

New Rule: You can’t put a windmill in your campaign ad if you voted against every single bill that might lead to someone building one. As long as you’re sending a camera crew to a...

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.