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" If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. "

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" Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. "

" In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people. "

" There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. "

" Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. "

" Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. "

" Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. "

" Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education. "

" Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. "

" The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.' "

" Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. "

" You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. "

" Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. "

" Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. "

" If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. "

" The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. "

" People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. "

" Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. "

" There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds? "

" Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow. "

" The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up. "

" Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. "

" Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok? "

" Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency. "

" Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. "

" The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. "

" Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. "

" One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. "

" Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. "

" All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts. "