I don’t like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of ‘from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs’. That’s socialism. It’s written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives [...]
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. — H. L. Mencken The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think. — H. L. Mencken Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, [...]
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. — Edmund Burke All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. — Edmund Burke The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. — Edmund [...]
