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2024-07-21 11:26:38
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
2024-06-02 11:23:02
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class—whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
2024-04-28 10:35:20
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: “I feed on your energy.”
2024-04-14 11:19:57
the drowning man who climbs on your shoulders to save himself is understandable—except when you see it happen in the drawing room.
2023-06-15 12:13:49
Government is never the solution, but it is almost always the problem. I’m a capitalist. And I believe in effort and progress and the ingenuity of our species. The continuing evolution and advancement of our kind based on fair competition.
2023-04-24 19:07:56
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
2021-03-21 23:09:58
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
2020-04-16 23:36:33
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
