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

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" There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. "

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

" 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. "

" All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. "

" 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. "

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

" Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. "

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

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

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

" Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. "

" 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. "

" The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country. "

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

" The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. "

" In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected. "

" If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. "

" 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. "