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I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

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Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

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Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.

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The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

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As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

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The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'

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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

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You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: June 30th, 1930

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