January 9, 2025

Government…is simply not the channel through which men’s noblest impulses are to be realized.

Kim Campbell, the first female prime minister of Canada, was right when she said a 47-day-long election campaign (Imagine a campaign of only 47 days!) was not enough time to reconsider the nation’s social programs. But she was wrong to say so.

It is a great error to speak of the things of this world absolutely and indiscriminately and to deal with them,