Never fight an inanimate object.
P. J. O'ROURKEExplosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.
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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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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.
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When you’re a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, ‘Gee, I wouldn’t want to be doing that.’ They’re on your side.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I’ve got a 1990 Porsche 911. It’s just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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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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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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