Wisdom from the side of a coffee cup

Everywhere, unthinking mobs of
“independent thinkers” wield
tired clichés like cudgels,
pummeling those who dare
question “enlightened” dogma.
If “violence never solved anything,”
Cops wouldn’t have guns and
Slaves may never have been freed.
If it’s better that “10 guilty men
go free to spare one innocent,”
why not free 100 or 1,000,000?
Clichés begin arguments,
they don’t settle them.

-- Jonah Goldberg
-- Editor at large of National Review online