In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
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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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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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Call a man ‘ignorant,’ and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren’t there.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It’s a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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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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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let’s hope so.
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