“What makes big government dangerous is not the augmentation of something wicked but the deformation of something fragile.” William Voegeli

“Progressives often voice abstract anguish to win psychological absolution and political cover for their own moral lapses and hypocrisies: The louder the condemnation, often the greater the guilt and the need for absolution.”  V.D. Hanson

“Perhaps the greatest of modern fallacies is that economic problems can be solved with political means, and that charismatic leadership can unite if only political restraints are sacrificed.” HO

“..when legitimacy yields to force, and moral absolutes to relativism, a great darkness descends and angels become indistinguishable from devils.”  Paul Johnson

“One’s respect for facts is often more contingent on the comfort they bring than their validity.”  HO

“Reality does not respect a democracy’s delusions.” George Will

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