Meta-editor most active in Society, Arts, and parts of Regional with dalliances in Sports, Science, and Reference. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.
Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owns a corresponding responsibility.
There cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also genuine order in the moral realm and in the social realm. Russell Kirk Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the laws. Solon False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. Comte Joseph de Maistre Neither shall you allege the example of the many as an excuse for doing wrong, nor shall you, when testifying in a lawsuit, side with the many in perverting justice. No one works, but everyone gets paid.