Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.
There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want
We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment. . . [it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage.
I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government
I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care
Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims
So wake me up when it's all over When I'm wiser and I'm older All this time I was finding myself And I didn't know I was lost
Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.
On the Internet, news is consumed a la carte. If someone shows up on the main page of a website and doesn't see anything of interest, they leave. This negatively impacts ad revenues. The solution on the Internet is to pack news websites full of things that will draw people in, regardless of whether they are news or not.
Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.