In one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek…

In one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offering remedial English in college.

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War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections. - View Quote Details on War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions…
The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of “freedom”. - View Quote Details on The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens…
When a politician wrestles with his conscience, he usually wins. - View Quote Details on When a politician wrestles with his conscience, he usually wins.
“Need” now means wanting someone else’s money. “Greed” means wanting to keep your own. “Compassion” is when a politician arranges the transfer. - View Quote Details on “Need” now means wanting someone else’s money. “Greed” means wanting…
People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to measure the chilling effect on innovation that results from the threats of taxation, regulation and prosecution against anything that succeeds. We’ll never know how many ideas our government has aborted in the name protecting us. - View Quote Details on People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted…
Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission. - View Quote Details on Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right…
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. - View Quote Details on Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against…
After tens of millions of [abortion] ‘procedures’, has America lost anything? Another Edison, perhaps? A Gershwin? A Babe Ruth? A Duke Ellington?…As it is, we will never know what abortion has cost us all. - View Quote Details on After tens of millions of [abortion] ‘procedures’, has America lost…
War is just one more big government program. - View Quote Details on War is just one more big government program.
…[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population today — [according to liberals] — can grasp such nuances. Too bad. The Constitution wasn’t meant to be a brain-twister. - View Quote Details on …[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the…