An art we are constantly perfecting

Birthday of Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of England, born 1925.

"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give it to the other." -- Voltaire.

I resist that statement

Thoreau's Resistance to Civil Government was published on this day in 1849.

"There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action." -- Bertrand Russell.