Judging Politicians

For my own part I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities which he excites among his opponents. I have always set myself not merely to relish but to deserve thoroughly their censure.

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg.16

Study the Past

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Alexis de Tocqueville

How Will You Be Judged?

We shall not be judged by the criticisms of our opponents but by the consequences of our acts.

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg.14

The Worst Tyranny

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C.S. Lewis.

Colleges Are No Longer About Education

Colleges today are increasingly collections of hostile identity groups, each clamoring against the crimes of the other. Students are not invited to step outside themselves, to step outside their own time, and to look at things as they have been understood by the best over time. If they did that, they would learn and grown not by invention but by discovery.

Larry P. Arnn, President, Hillsdale College, “Four Pillars: Educating for America”

Don't Ignore Evil

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Albert Einstein

Teachers Create Artificial Stupidity

The Fantasy of Utopia

Politicians Don't Care About Our Problems

What Is Needed for Stable Civilization

Where you do not have stable marriage
and you do not have stable parenthood, 
and you do not have stable families,
you cannot have a stable economic system,
you cannot have a stable social system,
and you cannot have a stable civilization.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan