How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of the anointed often see these constraints as only arbitrary impositions, things from which they-and we all-can be 'liberated.' The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions-the vision-which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback.

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened.

The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.