Glenn Reynolds Quotes

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• As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when they spend your taxes, it always seems to go to some guy in a leather chair downtown you never heard of.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Teacher, Father, Law

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• Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.

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  Country, Couple, Gay

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• The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.

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  Home, College, Class

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• That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on.

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  Giving, Feelings, Comforting

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• When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.

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  Government, Political, Failing

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• What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not an elite at all. That is, they aren't particularly smart, or competent.

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  Smart, Political, Smugness

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• The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.

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  Hurt, Racism, Politics

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• With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory.

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  Memories, Secret, Ignorant

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• Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.

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  Politics, Taxpayers, Democrat

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• [B]ipartisanship means tarring and feathering politicans from both major parties.

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  Party, Mean, Majors

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• Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.

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  Tired, People, Political

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• When people say things like "don't let this moment pass without acting on gun control," what they're really saying is our arguments are so unpersuasive that they can only succeed when people aren't thinking clearly.

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  Gun, Thinking, People

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• Things that can't go on forever, won't. Debts that can't be paid, won't be.

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  Forever, Debt, Goes On

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• Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.

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  Media, Civilization, Would Be

  Post by Glenn Reynolds, pjmedia.com. March 24, 2006.

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• The purpose of the right to bear arms is twofold; to allow individuals to protect themselves and their families, and to ensure a body of armed citizenry from which a militia could be drawn, whether that militia's role was to protect the nation, or to protect the people from a tyrannical government.

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  Government, People, Defense

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• You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

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  Revolution, States, Wells

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• [W]hen you align yourself exclusively with one party, and weaponize yourself in that party's cause, you're going to pay the price when the other party is in power. That's the price you pay for whoring yourself out.

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  Party, Pay The Price, Hens

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• It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

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  Political, Feelings, Politics

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• I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.

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  Thinking, Racism, Criticism

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• But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.

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  White, People, Diversity

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• [T]he notion that a belief in self-reliance cannot coexist with a spirit of generosity is crap. In fact, one is far less likely to find a spirit of generosity among the advocates of governmentally-required "compassion".

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  Compassion, Self, Generosity

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• The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption — and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizens’ lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.

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  Running, Jobs, Opportunity

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• Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

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  Sweet, America, Politics

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• Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere.

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  Political, Wire, Site

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• Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Country, Class, Ideas

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