Diligent As One Must Be In Learning,

The Primary Reason For A Tariff Is That It Enables The Exploitation Of The Domestic Consumer By A Process Indistinguishable From Sheer Robbery.

Diligent As One Must Be In Learning, One Must Be As Diligent In Forgetting; Otherwise The Process Is One Of Pedantry, Not Culture.

Instead Of Recognizing The State As ‘the Common Enemy Of All Well-disposed, Industrious And Decent Men,’ The Run Of Mankind, With Rare Exceptions, Regards It Not Only As A Final And Indispensable Entity, But Also As, In The Main, Beneficent. The Mass-man, Ignorant Of Its History, Regards Its Character And Intentions As Social Rather Than Anti-social; And In That Faith He Is Willing To Put At Its Disposal An Indefinite Credit Of Knavery, Mendacity And Chicane, Upon Which Its Administrators May Draw At Will.

Above All Things The Mass-mind Is Most Bitterly Resentful Of Superiority. It Will Not Tolerate The Thought Of An Elite; And Under A Political System Of Universal Suffrage, The Mass-mind Is Enabled To Make Its Antipathies Prevail.

Driving Jobholders Out Of Office Is Like The Old Discredited Policy Of Driving Prostitutes Out Of Town. Their Places Are Immediately Taken By Others Who Are Precisely Like Them.