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Individual Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy…
- Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty…
- In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when…
- 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…
- Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing…
- There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
- 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…
- Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national…
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- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and… — David Attenborough
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. — Irving Babbitt
- I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what… — Michele Bachmann
- The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion -… — Michele Bachmann
- An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou