Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out all their good intentions, in all kinds of economic and political systems. Capitalism makes them pay a price for their failures, while socialism, feudalism, fascism and other systems enable personal failures, especially by those at the top, to be ignored.

History is the memory of a nation

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.

In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.