Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be synonymous with selfishness...But the main reason why so many people in power have always disliked individualism is because it is individualists who are ever keenest to prevent the abuse of authority.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

That is what capitalism is: a system that brings wealth to the many, not just the few.

Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others.