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- You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely…
- Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or…
- The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is…
- Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in…
- Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all…
- There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you…
- For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a…
- The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media.…
- There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.
- If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of…
- In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called 'social justice'…
- There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?
- When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way…
- Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.
- All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.
- The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.
- Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.
- To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its…
- The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by…
- Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle