“Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.”
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A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
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.
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.