The US no longer does decisions. It can neither stop the drug traffic nor legalize it. It can … - Fred Reed

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You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

Fred Reed

The US no longer does decisions. It can neither stop the drug traffic nor legalize it. It can neither win wars nor abandon them, neither make money nor stop spending it, neither stop immigration nor assimilate the immigrants. Washington can beat its thumb with a hammer, yes, and notice that it hurts, but it can't stop beating its thumb. That would take a decision, and Washington doesn't do decisions.

Hurt, Immigration, Take, War, Wars, Winning

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When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.

Almighty, Religion, See, Transcript, Want

Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.

America, Bribes, Hill, Law, Legislation, Temples

Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in public or the Roman games, is the proper activity of the lower intellectual and moral classes. It amounts to collusion in one's own suckering.

Character, Class, Classes, Games, Low, Moral

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

Democracy, Imagine, Proper, Retain, Self

Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If you doubt this, I congratulate you on not having a television.

Doubt, Father, Government, Intend, See, Television