Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable

John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.

Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.

Kissinger's major, and most lucrative role, has come as head of Kissinger Associates in New York City, founded on a loan obtained in 1982 from the international banking firm of E.M. Warburg, Pincus and Company. Nominally, Kissinger Associates (KA) is an "international consulting firm" but "consultant" covers many sins, and in KA's case, this means international political influence-peddling for its two dozen or so important corporate clients.

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.