“In the welfare state, experience teaches nothing.”
Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
A Murderess’s Tale http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_1_oh_to_be.html (Winter 2005). <br class="br">City Journal (1998 - 2008)
“The love of God consists in an ardent desire to procure the general welfare, and reason teaches me that there is nothing which contributes more to the general welfare of mankind than the perfection of reason.”
Closing sentence of the Preface to the general science (1677) (in P. Wiener (ed.), Leibniz Selections, Macmilland Press Ltd, 1951).
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