One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.- Thomas Sowell
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars do not run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
Liberals seem to assume that, if you do not believe in their particular political solutions, then you do not really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You do not need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
