David Harsanyi Quotes
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Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.
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Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained, and a Pyrrhic…
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The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.
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'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you…
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Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive power - not…
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Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.
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Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.
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It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.
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A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.
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Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.
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My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation…
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Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a bit and saw…
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Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.
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Zero-tolerance on drinking and driving - meaning no drinking at all before driving - is a collective punishment that, in essence, only affects responsible adults…
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Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.
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As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.
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If had to label myself, I guess classical liberal would be best.
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When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.
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If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer.
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You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus on bringing the wealthy down to earth…
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