“Even among [our] rulers, only 63 percent -- triple the fraction of the general populace but still less than two-thirds of the political class -- regard the federal government as legitimate by the standards of America’s founding document.  The remainder, presumably, are comfortable being tyrants.” - Glenn Reynolds

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“I wish we could fight the war in Afghanistan as effectively as our government is waging the war on small business.” - “pdqBach,” commenting at BigGovernment.com

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“The liberal establishment in this country doesn’t just think their personal preferences are just that, preferences, but rather they see them as [the] natural and correct state of the world.  They bemoan the loss of the bi-partisan good old days, when... Republicans were fine and decent men like Howard Baker, Gerald Ford and Robert Michel.  Men who knew their place…in the minority, helping Democrats pass important social programs and tax hikes.” - DrewM.

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“If you are going to base a large part of your self-worth on the proposition that you are smarter than your political opponents, and if every third sentence of your critique is going to reassert that you are smarter than your political opponents, at some point is is incumbent upon you to say something smart, or insightful, or nuanced, or at least novel.” - Ace

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“The most you're buying from a RINO is time.  The RINO’s non-command of principles will feed the Progressive decline, albeit more slowly than a Democrat’s.  In a way, the Democrat is more admirable, because he’s not blowing any sunshine up the public bottom about his task.” - Smitty (at The Other McCain)

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“California, over the years, has had a knack for taking reasonable ideas and making them unreasonable, or worse.” - Charles G. Hill

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“The Left owes Nixon some apologies if erased data is cool now.” - the “Rodent Liberation Front”

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“If the needs and desires of some can transcend the liberty of others, then liberty itself is a meaningless concept.  Freedom is not what you have left after everyone else is finished making demands of you.” - “Doctor Zero”

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“One of the proper functions of government is to maintain the correct distance between ‘a little weird’ and ‘illegal.’” - Charles G. Hill

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“If you fully embrace the leftist identity-politics grievance-theater worldview, you eventually must embrace the philosophy of any and every self-defined minority group, no matter how noxious...” - “Zombie”

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