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P. J. O'Rourke174 quotes“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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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.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God’s grace.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke 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'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it’s got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It’s not pretty. But it’s striking, I’ll give it that. It’s not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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