"Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government."
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"Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life."
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"[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature."
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"Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what."
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"Even the continents drift."
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"That is the crux of modern conservatism - government taking strong measures to foster the attitudes and aptitudes necessary for increased individual independence."
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"The English language is not always the President's friend."
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"The case for democracy is not esthetic."
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"It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate."
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"Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called "self-interestedness". This was not a portrait of man "warts and all". It was all wart - except that the dominating attribute was not considered a blemish."
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"The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access."
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"Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates."
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"[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings."
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"There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization."
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"According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979."
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"With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda."
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"The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting the expressive activity of topless dancers, which of late has found some shelter under the First Amendment. Rather, the Framers cherished unabridged freedom of political communication."
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"The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering."
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"The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity."
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"When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side."
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