…the Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively.
Anyone with more than a cursory knowledge of 20th century history who dares to claim simultaneously that they have compassion for the downtrodden and that they are Marxists are revealing either an ignorance of history that is so astounding that it is almost a form of miracle or a kind of malevolence that is so reprehensible that it is almost unspeakable. Because we have already run the equity experiment over the course of the 20th Century and we know what the Marxist’s doctrines have done to people. All around the world, the answer is: imprison them, enslave them, work them to death, execute them and, as far as I can tell, that’s not commensurate with any message of compassion. Sorry, did that, didn’t work. And we have 100 million corpses to prove it and that’s plenty for me; and if it isn’t enough for you, you should do some serious thinking about your historic knowledge or your personal character.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
While we’re here, we might as well set up a government.