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Power corrupts not by repression, but by seduction.
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The Left cannot be appeased. It can only be smashed.
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Everyone who spins a myth claims to be debunking one.
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Leftism is Protestantism and Protestantism is leftism...
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Who knows more about human biology? You, or James Watson?
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History is a branch of literature, not a field of science.
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Conflict is an inescapable part of life. Uncertainty is not.
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Limited government is a recipe for corrupting the judiciary.
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In fact, rationalism is to reason as scientism is to science.
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[…] never trust a German when he tells you he's an atheist.
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[…] the Right wins when it strikes hard, fast, and decisively.
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Law is obeyed because people who disobey the law are put in jail.
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[…] in a free society, there is no such thing as official truth.
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You think you're charging the matador, but you're charging the cape.
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Law is impartial by definition. If it's not impartial, it's not law.
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[…] power in a democracy is held by those who manage public opinion.
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Replacing your own ideology is a lot like do-it-yourself brain surgery.
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[…] the state is simply a real-estate business on a very large scale.
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[…] universal faith in progress is evidence for, not against, decline.
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The secret of power is that power and responsibility are the same thing.
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Stability is much underappreciated, especially by those who enjoy its benefits.
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[…] nothing corrupt, criminal, or mendacious can be described as reactionary.
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Limited government simply has no motivation to stay limited. And so it doesn't.
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The essential idea of leftism is that the world should be governed by scholars.
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The temptation to reform, rather than abandon, the adaptive fiction is omnipresent.
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A good test for getting rid of anything is: if we didn't have this, would we need it?
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But yes—disbelieving in democracy in 2008 is a lot like disbelieving in God in 1758.
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The other day I was tinkering around in my garage and I decided to build a new ideology.
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In a society where scholars are the ruling caste, actual scholarship tends to disappear.
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That's always the trouble with history. It always looks like it's over. But it never is.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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