In the lexicon of the political class, the word sacrifice means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

Quote by George Will

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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

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You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst...

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the...

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Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he...

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Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy...

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Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American...

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between...

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between...

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

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As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

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Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's...

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

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Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

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Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only...

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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it...

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

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Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of...

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity...

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity...

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be...

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be...