In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

Specialization is for insects.

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.