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August 3, 2025

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), English philosopher, Essays (1891) vol. 3 ‘State Tamperings with Money and Banks’, Jay p.347

What follies have you succumbed to over the course of your political career? Are you any less a fool for having done so?

Think of helicopter parent who insists on securing her child against every threat, no matter how mild the threat nor how old the parent and child both grow. What a disservice they do to that child.


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