Antonin Scalia on the Successful Society

Human institutions succeed or fail in large part because of the good traditions or the bad traditions that animate them… good traditions, once lost, are difficult if not impossible to re-establish.

- Antonin Scalia, On Faith

Any government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the active support of Paul.

- George Bernard Shaw

That society is the freest which is the most responsible.

- Lord Acton

The quotes from Justice Scalia and Lord Acton come from the same book. The George Bernard Shaw quote is both accurate and amusing given that Mr. Shaw was generally wrong about almost everything he said, but even a broken clock is right two times a day.

For more information, please see the following:

On Faith: Lessons from an American Believer By Antonin Scalia