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Free Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement…
- There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.
- Health care is too expensive, so the Clinton administration is putting a high-powered coporate lawyer - Hillary - in charge of making it cheaper. (This…
- How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?
- Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And…
- Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead…
- Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free— indeed, sanctimonious— way for progressives to be racists.
- Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.
- People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a…
- If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
- The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's…
- The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there…
- One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And…
- Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
- As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks…
- Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.
- In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
More Free Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. — Julian Assange
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine