Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world.
Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.
There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.
We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.
The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.
At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.
Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.
Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.
Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical factor of production, but rather a yardstick for measuring economic input, economic outtake and the relative values of the real goods and services of the economic world. Money provides a method of measuring obligations, rights, powers and privileges. It provides a means whereby certain individuals can accumulate claims against others, or against the economy as a whole, or against many economies.
The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.
Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.