The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
P. J. O'ROURKEGovernment is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
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I don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.
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The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry – knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
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A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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