I would accept this as true. It is more apt in some parts of the world than others.

Men cannot be changed. They can be destroyed, supressed, disenfranchised maybe but not changed. Poverty ever accompanies weak minds, something no amount of public education can change. You cannot fool genetics.

Liberals wallow in hypocrisy.

Far simpler than a test, those on the dole should have no vote.

Let the weak not vote, for they prefer handouts to solutions.

Those of us who agree are not the problem.

True for most.

Joy, read Obama's books and wake up.

Good luck getting a revolution out of aging hippies and brainless 20-somethings. Voting for more handouts and less taxes is not a revolution.

This only works if the dictator, emperor, or king can maintain absolute control by constantly terrorizing the people. In softer tyrranies propoganda is used first to gradually transform the youth and immigrant populations.

When you accept that the majority of humanity is barely capable of rational thought anyway, this quote becomes all the more true. The trick, I suppose, is to either disperse the crowd or bend it to some positive use.

A consensus among thinking men often leads to polarization of the masses. There is nothing wrong with this; it is the natural order of things.

Drop the almost and it's a five-star quote.

We must use our robots wisely. If we free humanity from its manual labors, it must be for reasons other than sloth, greed, gluttony, wrath, despair, acedia, or lust.

The societal "progress" depriving us of our connection with nature, labor, and kinship in American is the governmental theft of our time. The money taken from us and wasted by government is nothing more than the time that we purposefully saved for living our lives. Man was not meant to live as a depressed socialist automaton, working four months of the year for other's gain. Depression is born from repeated unhappiness through theft without end.

"We have no "state" education in the Ameridca in which I live we have community schools." Public schooling is funded by taxes confiscated to pay wages set by union membership working within a state-protected monopoly. You are right, Waffler to say the we do not have state education, we have state daycare. For those of us who have little choice in the matter, be prepared to teach your children everything you want them to know during every spare minute that you have with them.

The state school's primary goal is indoctricantion. The private school's primary goal is to teach what parents want to be taught. Private schooling, including home schooling, is superior to public schooling in every way that matters.

Waffler, you are quickly approaching troll status on this board.

It almost seems too obvious at this point.

J Carlton has said it; it needn't be said again.

Madison believed that a government made up of opposing minority factions was a safer government than one of clear majorities. That we have allowed the two party system to become so efficient at passing laws has been deadly to liberty.

Academic integrity is unfashionable at the moment.

And so we have traded our liberty for shiny beads that we ourselves made in the first place.

Let us tear down the wall of taxes preventing the middle classes from advancing into the upper classes and stop trying to subsidize the lower classes into the middle classes. The American worker must believe again that they can advance only through their own industry.

Its not funny because it's true.