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Book cover for Fortitude: Resilience in the Age of Outrage
You want to be humble. This can mean a lot of things, so let’s be a little specific. You say “please” and “thank you” often, and practice the good manners that are a timeless doctrine of civil society. You do not expect people to do things ...more
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“The malicious murder of an innocent person is simply not on the same moral plane as the execution of the guilty murderer done to uphold the sanctity of the law, the moral order of the community, and the equality of the victim.”
― William P. Barr, One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General

George Friedman
“The core of all cultures is the relationship between men and women.”
― George Friedman, The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

“it is not the role of the state to use its coercive power to remake man and society according to some abstract conception of perfection. The purpose of government is far more modest: maintaining the modicum of order necessary for citizens to flourish in peace as they pursue their freely chosen destiny, both as individuals and together in the free, voluntary associations that develop organically as part of private civil society. The”
― William P. Barr, One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General

“Hanlon’s razor: don’t ascribe malice when stupidity is a sufficient explanation.”
― William P. Barr, One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General

“At almost eighty years of age and with thirty-six years in the same government job, he struck me as a consummate bureaucrat—one with a huge ego and penchant for self-promotion.”
― William P. Barr, One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General

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