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" Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens. "

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" People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes. "

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

" Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more. "

" The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again. "

" 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? "

" The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best. "

" Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. "

" 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. "

" Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. "

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

" I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with. "

" Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. "

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

" Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses. "

" Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. "

" Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is. "

" It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. "

" Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help. "

" Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing. "

" The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. "

" Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is. "

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

" The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. "

" 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. "

" People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. "