Champagne with its foaming whirls<br>As white as Cleopatra's pearls.
Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation.
I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.
All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.
How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.
. . . human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.
Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.
We always imagine that the Supreme Being is very far away -many, many millions of light years away- yet It is very near, in our throat itself.
For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.
The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
Champagne with its foaming whirlsAs white as Cleopatra's pearls.
Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.