~ The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe. ~  ~ Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ~ ~ Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. ~ ~ Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. ~ ~ Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, are right ~ ~ Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself ~ ~ Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. ~ ~ I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. ~ ~ As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron ~ ~ I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. ~ ~ Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. ~ ~ Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body. ~ ~ The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him. ~ ~ Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ~ ~ The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. ~ Most Popular Topics:
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