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> [If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/if-you-spend-any-time-in-washington-you-ll-find-nerds-what-happens-is/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

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> [Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/liberals-and-leftists-have-been-dismissing-inconvenient-facts-by/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

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> [It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/it-was-in-the-1960s-that-the-left-convinced-itself-that-there-is/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

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## Other authors on 1960s

## More by Jonah Goldberg

> [Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/not-reassuring-when-weathermen-say-today-will-be-terrible-but-don-t/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

> [Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/are-you-a-producer-or-a-looter-if-diversity-were-always-and/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

> [You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/you-can-make-a-very-good-argument-that-society-would-be-much-worse/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

> [“The nasty racism that infused the progressive eugenics of Margaret Sanger and others has largely melted away. But liberal fascists are still racist in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/the-nasty-racism-that-infused-the-progressive-eugenics-of-margaret/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

> [Liberals are Nazis, and Nazis are liberals. And if you don't agree with me, you're a Nazi too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/liberals-are-nazis-and-nazis-are-liberals-and-if-you-don-t-agree-with/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

> [I have always seen the Clinton Foundation - yes, they do a lot of charitable good works. But by my lights, the charitable good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/i-have-always-seen-the-clinton-foundation-yes-they-do-a-lot-of/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

> [(I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/i-f-france-s-righteous-bloviating-against-war-makes-them-your/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

> [(I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin appeased Hitler…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/i-t-is-simply-wrong-to-confuse-cowardice-with-appeasement-cowardice/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

> [Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/social-distinctions-tend-to-matter-only-at-your-own-level-and-above/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

> [The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to advocate gluttony,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/the-logical-upshot-of-liberalism-s-hatred-of-hypocrisy-is-that-it-is/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

> [“No nation influenced American thinking more profoundly than Germany, W.E.B. DuBois, Charles Beard, Walter Weyl, Richard Ely, Richard Ely, Nicholas Murray Butler, and countless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/no-nation-influenced-american-thinking-more-profoundly-than-germany-w/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

> [In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/in-europe-and-america-alike-voters-increasingly-recognize-that-the/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

> [“Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/tom-friedman-says-china-is-so-awesome-they-make-kosher-pigs/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

> [Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/facts-are-mere-speed-bumps-on-the-road-to-lefty-moral-outrage/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

> [There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/there-was-no-intellectual-movement-in-american-history-called-social/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

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