Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance.

A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come.

When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.

The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.

Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.

The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.