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- The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment…
- It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities…
- The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to…
- 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…
- You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes…
- Smoking is very bad for you and should only be done because it looks so good. People who don't smoke have a terrible time finding…
- [T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious…
- When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy…
- I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional seduction…
- I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to…
- The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the…
- How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?
- 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…
- When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power…
- So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available.…
- If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already. Many…
- Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery,…
- 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…
- Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
- The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking…
- The Constitution is an equally forthright piece of work and quite succinct ... giving the complete operating instructions for a nation of 250 million people.…
- In Washington journalists can afford to live almost as well as people who work for a living.
- Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at…
- In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.
- And, by the way, how come all the people who were so in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament are so opposed to unilateral protection against…
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle