"World War II was the last government program that really worked."
-George Will
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"I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom."
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"Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain."
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"Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose."
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"There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice."
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"The future has a way of arriving unannounced."
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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
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"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
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"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
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