One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.

Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States.

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

History is the memory of a nation

However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.