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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’

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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Horizon Many Toledo Tree
Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Best Bought Guy Happen Journalism People Person Popular Thing Wonderful
People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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Always Anything People Tell Truth
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Country Government Make Mystery People Stop
Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Fact Failure Forces Huge Industrial People Revolution
A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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Big Country Fundamental Ideas Question
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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Government Illegal Product Sell
We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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Government Human Nature Need
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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Always Die Good Look Make Middle Read Something
Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
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Dosproven Fact Mindless Opinion People Some
I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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Country Dirty Enough Now Old Over Remember
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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Come Creep Duty Enfeeble Evil Human Law Plan Rule
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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Better Human Method Mistrust Resign Science Validity Work
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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Another Brief Death History Impeach National Out President Thousand Worry
The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there’s a reason for that – the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent – No Child Left Behind.
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Behind Civil Downfall Government Importance Local State Treat War
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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Care Expensive Free Health Now Think Wait

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