“Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.”
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Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.