[lbo-talk] happiness pays?

[John Adams]

On Apr 1, 2006, at 8:15 PM, Marta Russell wrote:

> That surprises the hell out of me.

As well it should--I was indulging myself in an April Fool's lie. (I'm 
pretty sure it's really Patrick Henry or Thomas Paine or one of those 
guys--probably Paine.) It just sort of reminded me, in the start, of 
Goldwater's "Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice" (my slogan 
being "Vice in the pursuit of liberty is not necessarily extreme, 
though it's more fun when it is").