I Like That Lady - Sarah Palin.

The Writer Learns To Write, In The Last Resort, Only By Writing. He Must Get Words Onto Paper Even If He Is Dissatisfied With Them.

Bismarck Had Cunningly Taught The Parties Not To Aim At National Appeal But To Represent Interests. They Remained Class Or Sectional Pressure-groups Under The Republic. This Was Fatal, For It Made The Party System, And With It Democratic Parliamentarianism, Seem A Divisive Rather Than A Unifying Factor. Worse: It Meant The Parties Never Produced A Leader Who Appealed Beyond The Narrow Limits Of His Own Following.

The Urge To Distribute Wealth Equally, And Still More The Belief That It Can Be Brought About By Political Action, Is The Most Dangerous Of All Popular Emotions. It Is The Legitimation Of Envy, Of All The Deadly Sins The One Which A Stable Society Based On Consensus Should Fear The Most. The Monster State Is A Source Of Many Evils; But It Is, Above All, An Engine Of Envy.

Nothing Appeals To Intellectuals More Than The Feeling That They Represent 'the People'. Nothing, As A Rule, Is Further From The Truth

It Takes Less Than A Decade For Today's Luxury To Become A Universal Necessity.