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The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.
Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.
Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.
France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.
People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.
How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.
Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.
It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.
No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.
It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do what matters it doesnt matter what you do.
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.
Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.
Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.
Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side
People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.
All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.
Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.
The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'
You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.
The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.
Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.
Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.
There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.
One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.
There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?
The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.
Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.