No Modern Nation Has Ever

Somehow, The Fact That More Poor People Are On Welfare, Receiving More Generous Payments, Does Not Seem To Have Made This Country A Nice Place To Live - Not Even For The Poor On Welfare, Whose Condition Seems Not Noticeably Better Than When They Were Poor And Off Welfare. Something Appears To Have Gone Wrong; A Liberal And Compassionate Social Policy Has Bred All Sorts Of Unanticipated And Perverse Consequences.

If You Believe That No One Was Ever Corrupted By A Book, You Have Also To Believe That No One Was Ever Improved By A Book.

In Comparison To The French Revolution, The American Revolution Has Come To Seem A Parochial And Rather Dull Event. This, Despitethe Fact That The American Revolution Was Successful--realizing The Purposes Of The Revolutionaries And Establishing A Durable Political Regime--while The French Revolution Was A Resounding Failure, Devouring Its Own Children And Leading To An Imperial Despotism, Followed By An Eventual Restoration Of The Monarchy.

The Liberal Paradigm Of Regulation And License Has Led To A Society Where An 18-year-old Girl Has The Right To Public Fornication In A Pornographic Movie - But Only If She Is Paid The Minimum Wage.

Neocons Do Not Feel That Kind Of Alarm Or Anxiety About The Growth Of The State In The Past Century, Seeing It As Natural, Indeed Inevitable ... People Have Always Preferred Strong Government To Weak Government, Although They Certainly Have No Liking For Anything That Smacks Of Overly Intrusive Government.