Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.
Fred ReedThe proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.
Fred ReedIn fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obviously they are no good at it. The whole idea smacks of the fumble-witted idealism of a high-school Marxist society.
Fred ReedThough the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If you doubt this, I congratulate you on not having a television.
Fred Reed