“We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average …
A Familiar Library
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them—peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let …
The Iron Curtain Speech
On this day in 1946, Winston Churchill delivered a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri entitled, “The Sinews of Peace.” The landmark oratory, best known as his “Iron Curtain Speech,” helped to define the emerging Cold War allian…
Grantian Florilegium 2011-11-28 21:20:00
“If you cannot readall your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them—peer into them,let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arreststhe eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on y…