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Big government makes small citizens.
Absolute welfare corrupts absolutely.
When the family dies, the nation follows.
In Britain, everything is policed except crime.
Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.
Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.
Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.
When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?
But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .
The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.
To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.
When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.
The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.
We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.
The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.
Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.
How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?
Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture
Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.
The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.
America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.
Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.
The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.
The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.
The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.
Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.
Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?
It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.
Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?
Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.
Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?
When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.
There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.
One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly.
It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.
In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?
If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.
[Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.
The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.
So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.
The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!
General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary.
But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?
If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.
Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.