[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.
Jonah GoldbergWhenever a Republican gets in office, all of a sudden progressives realize that federalism and state's rights aren't necessarily only about defending slavery or Jim Crow. They're actually about maximizing freedom.
Jonah GoldbergIf you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.
Jonah GoldbergWe are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.
Jonah GoldbergI am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.
Jonah GoldbergFree trade has been proven, time and again, as a reliable path to economic development. It pushes the public and private sectors alike toward greater accountability and transparency. It lifts people out of poverty, and while it can force unsettling changes on a society, those changes prove to be worthwhile in a very short time.
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