Michael On
Michael On
endurance looks holding-on
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
essence justice people
In The Federalist, James Madison called the rage for equality 'a wicked project.' People differ and rewards differ-that's the essence of both liberty and justice. No nation that rewards effort, talent, inventiveness and luck can even pretend to cherish equal outcomes. In an inventive and dynamic society, equal (even relatively equal) incomes can be achieved only by abandoning liberty for tyranny.
utopia oneself knows
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
escaping order class
There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy. (...) It empowers poor people from the bottom up. (...) A dynamic economic sector is the poor's best hope of escaping the prison of poverty. It is the only system so far known to human beings to take poor people and make them, quite soon, middle class, and some of them even (horrors!) rich.
marriage health-education welfare
Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."
self deception limits
Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits
stars rocks privacy
Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.
mind christianity lord
The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.
mistake iraq long
Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims of Iraq who now seek to live democratically is not a mistake. In the long, long history of the Middle East, this breakthrough may one day be ranked as a dramatic turning point in regional history.
work government political
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
long liberty lasts
Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.
atheist atheism sacred
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
default tyranny humans
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
evil suffering goes-on
Don't be afraid of anything. We've seen so much suffering and evil in the 20th century and we got through it. We can go on. God is with us. God will help us. Trust Him.