In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.