Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected.
You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.
The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against ‘the rich’ and big business, they don’t care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up unemployed.
Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.
Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.
Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.
To say the Constitution is living is to say that it’s dead.
Students are often in no position to judge ‘relevance’ until long after the fact.
What does ‘economic justice’ mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?
Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.
High tax rates that people don’t actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.
If a word means everything, then it means nothing.
You do not need proof for what people want to believe.
The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.
The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf.
We might have been better off if the question of Obama’s patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.
To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.
It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it “greed” to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.
A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: “I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat.”
Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States.