I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.

As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.