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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.
All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.
Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.
Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barac k Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.
The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian.
Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.
...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.
Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?
Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.
Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.
All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.
The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.
Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.
If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.
The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.
If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.
The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf.
The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.
How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?
Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.