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But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for...

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When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.

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Reverend Jesse Jackson, President-for-Life of the People's Republic of Himself.

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Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

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Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.

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The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

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The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.

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It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.

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Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.

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So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress.... Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

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The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

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General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary.

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But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

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Bisexuality is the proportional representation of sexuality in a world where most of us — straight or gay — operate a first-past-the-post system.

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On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

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[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

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As for 'cultural genocide', if there's any going on these days, it's the genocide of the Britannic inheritance — in North America, in the Antipodes, in Blair's Britain.

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There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.

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Free speech is hate speech; it's for the speech you hate – and for all your speech that the other guy hates. If you don't have free speech, then you can't have an honest discussion.

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Much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive this century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not all European countries.

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A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

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"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.

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Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are not subcontracted to the government.

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In 1970, the developed nations had twice as big a share of the global population as the Muslim world: 30 percent to 15 percent. By 2000, they were at parity: each had about 20 percent.
And by 2020?

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