If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.
War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results.
War is just one more big government program.
Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money – only for wanting to keep your own money.
Most Americans aren’t the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.
Chesterton spoke of ‘the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.’ It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.
Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.
Legalizing abortion to get government out of the bedroom is like legalizing cannibalism to get government out of the kitchen.
It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying to belong to a church that is five minutes behind the times, huffing and puffing to catch up.
An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.
All in all, the framers would probably agree that it’s better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can’t be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.
The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of “freedom”.
Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.
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.
The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That’s easy: 100 per cent.
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
The measure of the state’s success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.
Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.
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...
Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.