There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.
Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work reality often forces us to choose love or work.
But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity power and influence of nations.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both but by too much prudence may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.
Well I thought the deal was when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!
I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.
Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?
The thought about Republicans is we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
In the rush to become all things to all people the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.
That no government so called can reasonably be trusted or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.
Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts because tax cuts give people more power and take away from the role of government.
The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago government had no claim to our income. Only sales excise and tariff taxes were allowed.
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
If human beings are fundamentally good no government is necessary if they are fundamentally bad any government being composed of human beings would be bad also.
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Ladies if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar good punctuation capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize it's done.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet namely a dull ending.
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?