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If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

The real triumph of the state occurs when its subjects refer to it as "we," like football fans talking about the home team.

Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.

Legalizing abortion to get government out of the bedroom is like legalizing cannibalism to get government out of the kitchen.

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

War is just one more big government program.

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

I realize that the New York Times probably not written for the express purpose of driving me mad; I think of it as liberalism's daily bulletin board.

Too many voters are already bought
not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.

Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly.

Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state.

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation.

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.

A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you.

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Loyalty to your country should never require you to lie about it.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.

Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.

Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power ...

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn't know it.

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.