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"The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity - the political allocation of wealth and opportunity - is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption."

Opportunity Justice Political

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"Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies."

Society Hyperbole Atrophy

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"Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial."

Baseball Thinking Trivia

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"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions."

Education Passion Purpose

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"Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization."

Self Names America

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"Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues."

Issues Political Voting

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"The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum."

School Intelligent Design

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"Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment."

Government Years Important

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"Republicans define freedom as an absence of restraints imposed by government. Democrats define freedom as an absence of necessity, which government exists to reduce. America has not moved as far as it thinks it has beyond the argument about the New Deal, when FDR insisted, "Necessitous men are not free men.""

Party Men Thinking

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"Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence."

Inspirational Sports Athlete

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"The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them."

Essence Liberty Democracy

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"It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet."

Lust Gourmet Enough

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"The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty."

War 4th Of July Blessing

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"The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'."

Law Firsts Constitution

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"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends."

Political Liberty Libertarian

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"The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted."

Agency Government Law

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"The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism."

Wall Achievement Berlin

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"The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers."

Fields Logic Language

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"I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom."

Space Work Out Mind

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"What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal."

America Done Illegal

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