What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.
Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Socialism means slavery.
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
Every wise man lives in an observatory.
Marx, if he had come back alive would have said Mao's his boy.
The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.
I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger.