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“What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.”
― Knowledge and Decisions
― Knowledge and Decisions
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
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“The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.”
― Knowledge and Decisions
― Knowledge and Decisions
“Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.”
― Knowledge and Decisions
― Knowledge and Decisions
“Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]”
― The Gathering Storm
― The Gathering Storm
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