"But in reality the point of free speech……" — Mark Steyn
"But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isn’t free at all. So screw that."
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56 Quotes by Mark Steyn
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If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there…
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Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator,…
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If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's…
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Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?
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Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.
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We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely…
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The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.
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Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy…
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There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention…
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Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand…
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Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up…
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The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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