“I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.” — Paul Harvey

Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they've been leaving us. We'll manage.

As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because of any class-related antagonism, but because any excess, ultimately, is its own undoing.

A policeman must know everything - and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.