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Those Terrifying Verbal Jungles Called Laws Are Simply Such Directives, Accumulated, Codified, And Systematized Through The Centuries.

If Everybody Is Rewarded Just For Being Alive, You Get The Same Sort Of Effect As You Do When You Reward Every Student Just For Being Enrolled. You Destroy Not Only Education, You Destroy Society By Giving A's To Everyone. This Is A Philosophical Consideration That Bothers Me Very Much As I Sit In The United States Senate And See The Great Budget Allocations Going Through.

The Language We Share Is At The Core Of Our Identity As Citizens, And Our Ticket To Full Participation In American Political Life. We Can Speak Any Language We Want At The Dinner Table, But English Is The Language Of Public Discourse, Or The Marketplace And Of The Voting Booth.

Ever Since Man Began To Till The Soil And Learned Not To Eat The Seed Grain But To Plant It And Wait For Harvest, The Postponement Of Gratification Has Been The Basis Of A Higher Standard Of Living And Of Civilization.

People Who Think Of Themselves As Tough-minded And Realistic, Among Them Influential Political Leaders And Businessmen As Well As Go-getters And Hustlers Of Smaller Caliber, Tend To Take It For Granted That Human Nature Is Selfish And That Life Is A Struggle In Which Only The Fittest May Survive. According To This Philosophy, The Basic Law By Which Man Must Live, In Spite Of His Surface Veneer Of Civilization, Is The Law Of The Jungle. The "fittest" Are Those Who Can Bring To The Struggle Superior Force, Superior Cunning, And Superior Ruthlessness.