“Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist ...”

“Theres a reason you probably havent heard much about this aspect of the heartland. This kind of blight cant be easily blamed on the usual suspects like government or counterculture or high-hat urba...”

“Were all free agents in this noncoercive class system, and Brooks eventually concludes that worrying about the problems faced by workers is yet another deluded affectation of the blue-state rich.”

“he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentieth centurynaturalism, muckraking, and hard-hitting social satirewhich would eventually topple the ...”

“In 1991, though, began an uprising that would propel those reptilian Republicans from a tiny splinter group into the states dominant political faction, that would reduce Kansas Democrats to third-p...”

“I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.”

“Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”

“Education doesnt make you happy. Nor does freedom. We dont become happy just because were free if we are. Or because weve been educated if we have. But because education may be the means by which...”

“Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of bei...”

“The past has no power over the present moment.”