September 2009
4 posts
“The mere absorbing of facts and truths is so exclusively individual an affair...”
– John Dewey
Let Us Alone!
“Since “economic growth” is today’s great problem, and our present Administration is promising to “stimuate” it—to achieve general prosperity by ever wider government controls, while spending an unproduced wealth—I wonder how many people know the origin of the term laissez-faire?”
Ayn Rand, 1962
The above quote is 47 years old and it could...
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the...”
– Samuel Adams
A Man
I will remind you that it is not books alone, or by books chiefly, that a man becomes in all points a man. Study to do faithfully whatsoever thing in your actual situation, there and now, you find either expressly or tacitly laid to your charge; that is your post; stand in it like a true soldier. Silently devour the many chagrins of it, as all human situations have many; and see you aim not to...