Quote of the day - Joe Sobran [change]

At bottom, “change” usually signifies an increase in the power of the centralized state over the decentralized private sphere of life, with a consequent decrease of freedom. But politicians prefer to keep their rhetoric lofty and their meaning vague, so the word sounds like a harmless and benign aspiration. And the state keeps growing.

Joe Sobran - September 9, 1999