Power Tempts Even The Best Of Men

We Would Be Much Worse Without Christianity; But We Wouldn't Know It.

Tax Time Approaches, And Americans Are As Always Paying H & R Block Billions To Help Them Save Some Of Their Wealth From Their Ravenous Government. Pitiful, In A Way: It Underlines The Grim But Unacknowledged Fact That The Government Is Their Enemy And They Have To Hire Protection From It. But Don't We Enjoy 'self-government'? Well, If We Have It, I'd Hardly Say We Enjoy It. True, We Aren't Being Taxed By The Monarch Of Great Britain, But Our American-born Rulers Claim Far More Of Our Wealth Than The British Monarchs Ever Did.

I Realize That The New York Times Probably Not Written For The Express Purpose Of Driving Me Mad; I Think Of It As Liberalism's Daily Bulletin Board.

There Can Be No Such Thing As "limited Government," Because There Is No Way To Control An Entity That In Principle Enjoys A Monopoly Of Power.

At The End Of A Century That Has Seen The Evils Of Communism, Nazism And Other Modern Tyrannies, The Impulse To Centralize Power Remains Amazingly Persistent.