Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the judiciary assume, and exercise, countless powers they aren't entitled to.

So when the wolf pounces on your lamb, just ignore the pitiful bleating and remind yourself that this is a democracy, where every sheep can freely express its preference for which kind of wolf it wants to be eaten by. Many sheep, perhaps understandably, prefer a wolf in sheep's clothing, which is after all the basic idea of democracy. So far it has worked pretty well. The wolves all agree on that, and they want to spread democracy everywhere.

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.