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The liberal state has no view on whether witchcraft is more valuable than all-in wrestling. Like a t...

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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you...

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White liberals, instead of comparing what has happened to the black family since the liberal welfare...

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Thomas SowellBlack Rednecks and White Liberals

Information or allegations reflecting negatively on individuals or groups seen less sympathetically ...

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Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

Democracy, liberalism--those are just words on a signpost, she was right about that. But the reality...

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Victor PelevinThe Sacred Book of the Werewolf

I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a...

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We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would...

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The conventional public opposition of 'liberal' and 'conservative' is, here as elsewhere, perfectly ...

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Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discov...

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A second marked characteristic of the Liberal in debate with the conservative is the tacit premise t...

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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the America...

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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the ce...

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Democrats see our voluntary military supported by taxpayer dollars as their personal Salvation Army....

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Nor is he liberal who gives with pain; for he would prefer the wealth to the noble act, and this is ...

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When I look at people talking about intersectionality, what I see is the human being magnifying a bi...

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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.

My last penny! I think I'll squander it on myself. I never feel badly about spending money my dad ha...

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And how easy it is to recognize the revenant shapes that the old unchanging enemies—racism, leader w...

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George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal an...

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Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties lea...

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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is...

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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

In order that there may be institutions, there must be a kind of will, instinct, or imperative, whic...

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Have you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James Goodfellow, when his careless son ha...

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Frédéric BastiatThat Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen

The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in do...

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Fulton J. SheenCharacters of the Passion: Lessons on Faith and Trust

Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of...

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There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improva...

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Geoff DyerAnother Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellect...

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George OrwellFacing Unpleasant Facts: 1937-1939

No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradic...

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It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose....

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The traditional, correct pre-Marxist view on exploitation was that of radical laissez-faire liberali...

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Hans-Hermann HoppeThe Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, h...

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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the...

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Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

By offering the educated a semblance of freedom he made the denial of real freedom even more painful...

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The local liberal press, much molested by the censorship, had its courageous and skilful writers suc...

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Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understo...

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The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Amo...

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James MadisonNotes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory howe...

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[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a simila...

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It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being...

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I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin...

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If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicki...

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Jonah GoldbergLiberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a...

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The principles of liberalism can have a real existence only in conjunction with a police system. Ana...

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Leon TrotskyHistory of the Russian Revolution

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

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Louis SimpsonPeople Live Here: Selected Poems 1948-1983

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception o...

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Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and t...

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Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the wea...

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When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social ph...

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If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the ...

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The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates h...

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More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, becau...

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If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or i...

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Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, le...

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Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves,...

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So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disresp...

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I need to say this – you shouldn't trust any government, actually including this one. You should not...

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[W]hat possible purpose does this lashing-out serve? Will activists be shamed into recovering their ...

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I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and...

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How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ...

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There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has ...

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Meanwhile, two other great currents in political thought, had a decisive significance on the develop...

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I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Fe...

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Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly.

The prevalence of anti-patriotic attitudes among liberal intellectuals led some of them to warn thei...

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Since, in our societies, a gendered division of labor still predominates which confers a male twist ...

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Nowadays, you can do anything that you want—anal, oral, fisting—but you need to be wearing gloves, c...

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