Now, progress toward perfection always implies some degree of imperfection in the future as well as in the past.
Category: Welfare State
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SERVICES
How can individuals delegate rights that they do not possess?
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SERVICES
The people, accustomed to calling upon the state for everything, accuse the government, not of doing too much, but of not doing enough.
WAGES
Must we always start with the fatal premise that all those who govern are guardians and all the governed are wards?
WAGES
In a word, an admirable institution will, from its very inception, be turned into a branch of the police force.
SPEECH ON THE TAX ON WINES AND SPIRITS
I have seen vineyard owners on days when it hails, days on which they are ruined. They weep but do not blame the government.
JUSTICE AND FRATERNITY
The people will be crushed by taxes, and loan upon loan will be taken out. Once the present has been exhausted, the future will be devoured.