From mass literacy the last couple of centuries follow more or less ineluctably.
Feb 122014
From mass literacy the last couple of centuries follow more or less ineluctably.
By infecting others the writer cures himself.
People who do not say what they mean usually do not know what they mean.
Punishment deters best when regarded as expiation.
It is so much easier not to be wrong than to be right.
No government strong enough to provide liberty is weak enough to preserve it.
In the most intractable arguments, one party regards as a question of degree what the other regards as one of kind.
The critique is usually pertinent, the positive program disastrous.
You can divorce your wife but not your generation.
One ought to reorganize one’s opinions at least as often as one’s closets.