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“European pantywaists might keep voting for high-spending governments, but the U.S. was founded on a popular revolt against taxation.”

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“They mean people who speak English and believe in small government, whether in San Francisco, Sligo, or Singapore.”

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A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

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“The American,” he wrote, “is the Englishman left to himself.”

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I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.

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Progressives and conservatives alike lean, unconsciously, towards particular conclusions, and then scrabble around to rationalise those conclusions to themselves.

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