“When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of applying his mind to the direction of the work. His every day becomes more of adroit and less industrious; so that it may be said of him, that, in proportion as the workman improves, the man is degraded. Alexis de Tocqueville”

“Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”

“if we could tax Americans' cognitive dissonance we could balance the budget. The American people want all kinds of incompatible things, they're human beings, and they want high services, low taxes, and an omnipresent, omniprominent welfare state.”

“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”

“Coarseness occurs in a land where platitude inflames this sense of entitlement to more of almost everything, but less of manners and taste, with their irritating intimations of authority and hierarchy.”

“Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.”

“Television news is akin to audible wallpaper.”

“Our hatred of government is not caused mainly by government's goals, whatever their wisdom, but by government's techniques." Philip Howard”

“Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive.”

“Law, rather than harnessing the passions, is increasingly pressed into their service.”

“Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day.”