America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being ‘hegemonistic’, of engaging in ‘unilateralism’, of behaving as if we’re the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
P. J. O'ROURKEHumans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it’s so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I’ve received a spam text.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren’t carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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