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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad.

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

We just did a survey that showed.... something like 65 percent of the people couldn't vote for the First Amendment if it was up for a vote today.

Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.

Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for authentication , ideas not derived from any systematic process , ideas which could not survive any reasonable authentication process , ideas which exempt themselves from any authentication process , ideas which have already passed authentication processes , as well as ideas known to have failed- or certain to fail- such processes .

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual principle of substituting "the good guys" for "the bad guys.".

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.

Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.