Our Capacity For Self-deception Has No Known

The Lord God, The Creator Of Judaism And The God Of Judaism And Christianity, Empowered Our Minds And Gave Us The Ability To Question.

To Persuade Thinking Persons In Eastern Europe That Central American Marxists - The Sandinistas, The Guerillas In El Salvador - Are In Absurd And Tragic Error Is Not Difficult. Poles And Czechs And Hungarians Can Hardly Believe, After What They Experienced Under Socialism, That Other Human Beings Would Fall For The Same Bundle Of Lies, Half-truths, And Distortions. Sadly, However, Illusion Is Often Sweeter To Human Taste Than Reality. The Last Marxist In The World Will Probably Be An American Nun.

In The Federalist, James Madison Called The Rage For Equality 'a Wicked Project.' People Differ And Rewards Differ-that's The Essence Of Both Liberty And Justice. No Nation That Rewards Effort, Talent, Inventiveness And Luck Can Even Pretend To Cherish Equal Outcomes. In An Inventive And Dynamic Society, Equal (even Relatively Equal) Incomes Can Be Achieved Only By Abandoning Liberty For Tyranny.

Unity In Diversity Is The Highest Possible Attainment Of A Civilization, A Testimony To The Most Noble Possibilities Of The Human Race. This Attainment Is Made Possible Through Passionate Concern For Choice, In An Atmosphere Of Social Trust.

There Is An Alternative To Terror. It Is Called, In The Political Order, Democracy. In The Economic Order, It Is Called The Dynamic Enterprise Economy. (...) It Empowers Poor People From The Bottom Up. (...) A Dynamic Economic Sector Is The Poor's Best Hope Of Escaping The Prison Of Poverty. It Is The Only System So Far Known To Human Beings To Take Poor People And Make Them, Quite Soon, Middle Class, And Some Of Them Even (horrors!) Rich.