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Powerline Blog
Power Line
11 Apr 2023
Steven Hayward


NextImg:Thought for the Day: The Root of the Matter

Elihu Root, from his lectures on “Experiments in Government,” 1913:

In estimating the value of any system of governmental institutions due regard must be had to the true functions of government and to the limitations imposed by nature upon what it is possible for government to accomplish. We all know of course that we cannot abolish all the evils in this world by statute or by the enforcement of statutes, nor can we prevent the inexorable law of nature which decrees that suffering shall follow vice, and all the evil passions and folly of mankind. Law cannot give to depravity the rewards of virtue, to indolence the rewards of industry, to indifference the rewards of ambition, or to ignorance the rewards of learning.

Well, the Biden Administration thinks you can do all these things.