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Wordsmith It may be that these mistakes were excusable on the basis of the knowledge available to men at the time – though I happen to think not. But that is really beside the point. Any system which...
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WordsmithIt's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people is compassion. Voting for our government to...
View ArticleThe messiness of freedom
WordsmithThe future we face at the dawn of the twenty-first century is, like all futures left to themselves, “emergent, complex messiness.” Its “messiness” lies not in disorder, but in an order that is...
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WordsmithIf Christmas Day had an opposite, it would be Budget Day. On Christmas Day, a man in a red suit gives you presents. On Budget Day, a man with a red box tries to steal what he can from you.--...
View ArticleOn the morality of tax avoidance
WordsmithAnyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to...
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WordsmithHow did we, as members of the academies and intelligentsia, come to be trapped in the romantic myth that politically organised authority could direct our lives so as to satisfy our needs more...
View ArticleJS Mill on Europe
WordsmithWhat has made the European family of nations an improving, instead of a stationary portion of mankind? …Europe is, in my judgment, wholly indebted to this plurality of paths [of character and...
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Wordsmith"Wherever producers have secured any power, they have used it to limit production, to enhance prices, and, in a word, to rob the rest of us. Power in the hands of producers has never been...
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Wordsmith"It is only by recognizing the conflict between a given rule and the rest of our moral beliefs that we can justify our rejection of an established rule. Even the success of an innovation by a...
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