"It must be admitted that the tendency
of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in
France. This is greatly due to a fatal desire -- learned from the
teachings of antiquity -- that our writers on public affairs have in
common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange,
organize, and regulate it according to their fancy."
-- Frederic Bastiat
"What chiefly distinguishes the daily
press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the
discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few
elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere
emotion."
-- H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956)
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