Jeff Jacoby Quotes

The future has a way of embarrassing the present, and...a pinch of self-doubt is never more needful than at just the moment when any doubt is deemed heretical.

future self-doubt

The small library in my Cleveland-area day school was merely a gateway drug to the local public library a mile from my home. I spent innumerable hours there as a boy, addicted as much to the serendipitous pleasures of searching for a good book as to the satisfying relish of losing myself in its pages once I found one.

libraries

In the real world, things don't last forever.  The carton of milk in your refrigerator has an expiration date.  So does the credit card in your wallet.  Cars need periodic tune-ups, medical prescriptions have to be reauthorized, and financial plans require adjustment.   Government should operate on the same assumption.  Every law should expire automatically after a fixed period of time—say, 12 or 15 years—unless lawmakers expressly vote to reauthorize it.

law