Though Liberals Do A Great Deal Of

There Is An Inverse Relationship Between Reliance On The State And Self-reliance.

I Will Not Cede More Power To The State. I Will Not Willingly Cede More Power To Anyone, Not To The State, Not To General Motors, Not To The Cio. I Will Hoard My Power Like A Miser, Resisting Every Effort To Drain It Away From Me. I Will Then Use My Power, As I See Fit. I Mean To Live My Life An Obedient Man, But Obedient To God, Subservient To The Wisdom Of My Ancestors; Never To The Authority Of Political Truths Arived At Yesterday At The Voting Booth. That Is A Program Of Sorts, Is It Not? It Is Certainly Program Enough To Keep Conservatives Busy, And Liberals At Bay. And The Nation Free.

One Must Recently Have Lived On Or Close To A College Campus To Have A Vivid Intimation Of What Has Happened. It Is There That We See How A Number Of Energetic Social Innovators, Plugging Their Grand Designs, Succeeded Over The Years In Capturing The Liberal Intellectual Imagination. And Since Ideas Rule The World, The Ideologues, Having Won Over The Intellectual Class, Simply Walked In And Started To Run Things. Run Just About Everything. There Never Was An Age Of Conformity Quite Like This One, Or A Camaraderie Quite Like The Liberals'.

A Good Debater Is Not Necessarily An Effective Vote-getter: You Can Find A Hole In Your Opponent's Argument Through Which You Could Drive A Coach And Four Ringing Jingle Bells All The Way, And Thrill At The Crystallization Of A Truth Wrung Out From A Bloody Dialogue - Which, However, May Warm Only You And Your Muse, While The Smiling Paralogist Has In The Meantime Made Votes By The Tens Of Thousands.

Liberals, It Has Been Said, Are Generous With Other Peoples' Money, Except When It Comes To Questions Of National Survival When They Prefer To Be Generous With Other People's Freedom And Security.