The Simple Truth Is That Our Businessmen

It Is Easier To Seize Wealth Than To Produce It, And As Long As The State Makes The Seizure Of Wealth A Matter Of Legalized Privilege, So Long Will The Squabble For That Privilege Go On.

It Is Easy To Prescribe Improvement For Others; It Is Easy To Organize Something, To Institutionalize This Or That, To Pass Laws, Multiply Bureaucratic Agencies, Form Pressure Groups, Start Revolutions, Change Forms Of Government, Tinker At Political Theory. The Fact That These Expedients Have Been Tried Unsuccessfully In Every Conceivable Combination For 6,000 Years Has Not Noticeably Impaired A Credulous Unintelligent Willingness To Keep On Trying Them Again And Again.

As Dr. Sigmund Freud Has Observed, It Can Not Even Be Said That The State Has Ever Shown Any Disposition To Suppress Crime, But Only To Safeguard Its Own Monopoly Of Crime.

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.

Perhaps The Prevalence Of Pedantry May Be Largely Accounted For By The Common Error Of Thinking That, Because Useful Knowledge Should Be Remembered, Any Kind Of Knowledge That Is At All Worth Learning Should Be Remembered Too.