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The choice of authors here is not so arbitrary as it may seem. They have been selected for both their sublimity and their representative nature: a book about twenty-six writers is possible, but not a book about four hundred.
“If I cannot convince you that originalism is the proper interpretive theory for our Constitution, I hope to convince you (to borrow from Churchill) that originalism is the worst form of constitutional interpretation, except for all the others.”
― A Republic, If You Can Keep It
― A Republic, If You Can Keep It
“But when I began researching Robert Moses’ expressway-building, and kept reading, in textbook after textbook, some version of the phrase “the human cost of highways” with never a detailed examination of what the “human cost” truly consisted of or of how it stacked up against the benefits of highways, I found myself simply unable to go forward to the next chapter. I felt I just had to try to show—to make readers not only see but understand and feel—what “human cost” meant.”
― Working
― Working
“We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. SUSAN JEFFERS”
― The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
― The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. —Hilaire Belloc”
― The Road to Serfdom
― The Road to Serfdom
“The choice of a political principle can and will be defended with reasons, but it cannot be secured with a proof sufficiently conclusive to end political debate.”
― A Student's Guide to Political Philosophy
― A Student's Guide to Political Philosophy
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