Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
--George Washington
Trantor - "The population ... was well in excess
of 40 billions. This enormous population was devoted almost entirely to the administrative necessities of Empire, and found themselves all too few for the complications of the task."
Teach your children well
F.A. Hayek: The Road to Serfdom
Jonah Goldberg: Liberal Fascism
Amity Shlaes: The Forgotten Man
Virginia Postrel: The Future and its Enemies
Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What's Left Of It