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  1. Thomas E. Woods Jr. _ Real Dissent: A Libertarian

    A conservative recognizes a hierarchy of concerns: I owe my children, my neighbors, and my co-religionists much more than I owe anyone in Iraq or anywhere else. Cicero, like so many figures in our classical past, held that "the union and fellowship of men will be best preserved if each receives from us the more kindness in proportion as he is more closely connected with us." The Bible confirms the wisdom of the ancients, instructing us that "if any man have not care of his own, and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel" {1 Tim. 5:8}.
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  2. Thomas E. Woods Jr. _ Real Dissent: A Libertarian

    It's one thing to describe someone as a voice crying in the wilderness, but that doesn't quite capture Laurence Vance and his work. Vance is a voice crying in a soundproof sarcophagus on the moon.
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  3. Thomas E. Woods Jr. _ Real Dissent: A Libertarian

    Leftist intellectuals were practically unanimous in favoring U.S. entry into World War I since they understood the opportunity it presented for institutional change at home. Wartime economic planning, they were convinced, would help to erode Americans' conservative beliefs in the limits of government and the inviolability of private property.
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  4. Thomas E. Woods Jr. _ Real Dissent: A Libertarian

    Republicans throughout the twentieth century have been advocates of prudence and restraint in the conduct of foreign affairs.
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  5. Thomas E. Woods Jr. _ Real Dissent: A Libertarian

    The Far Right is less interested in Burkean immunities from government power than it is in putting a maximum of governmental power in the hands of those who can be trusted. It is control of power, not diminution of power, that ranks high. Thus when Reagan was elected conservatives hoped for the quick abolition of such government 'monstrosities' as the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, and the two National Endowments of the Arts and Humanities, all creations of the political left. The Far Right in the Reagan Phenomenon saw it differently, however; they saw it as an opportunity for retaining and enjoying the powers. And the Far Right prevailed. It seeks to prevail also in the establishment of a 'national industrial strategy,' a government corporation structure in which the conservative dream of free private enterprise would be extinguished.
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  6. Thomas E. Woods Jr. _ Real Dissent: A Libertarian

    But it would be about tolerating dissent. Now, movies or plays, pieces of art about dissent, they always, I think, flatter the author and they flatter the audience. WOODS: Yeah. KAUFFMAN: Because, of course, all right-thinking people are on the side of the dissenter. WOODS: Right. KAUFFMAN: You know, who is being persecuted by the narrow-minded peasants, or the clerics who deny that the Earth is round, or that it orbits the sun, or that there's such a thing as evolution, and it's just such a cheap and easy pose to stand at this distance of time with Galileo, or – WOODS: I know, right!
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  7. Thomas E. Woods Jr. _ Real Dissent: A Libertarian

    Unchecked power is an invitation to tyranny.
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  8. Thomas E. Woods Jr. _ Real Dissent: A Libertarian

    imperialism has always been something of a losing proposition, especially in the modern international system, and our ruling class's attempt to nation-build the world in their own image is doomed to failure and to creating one disaster after another….
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  9. Thomas E. Woods Jr. _ Real Dissent: A Libertarian

    in all of the world of Islam, the masses now regard the United States as their arrogant adversary;
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  10. Thomas E. Woods Jr. _ Real Dissent: A Libertarian

    Caplan writes: My study of personality psychology makes me one of the doubters. On the popular Myers-Briggs personality test, there is a huge Thinking-Feeling gap between men and women. For men, the breakdown is roughly 60% Thinking, 40% Feeling. For women, the breakdown is roughly 30% Thinking, 70% Feeling.
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  11. Thomas E. Woods Jr. _ Real Dissent: A Libertarian

    About fifteen years ago a conservative columnist wrote that Americans are faced with a choice between the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. And that once in a while the two parties get together and do something that's both stupid and evil, and that's called bipartisanship.
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  12. Thomas E. Woods Jr. _ Real Dissent: A Libertarian

    To be attacked by a Gore Vidal, or an H.L. Mencken, one of the great wordsmiths of American criticism, while surely unpleasant, must have been oddly exhilarating for the poor souls on the receiving end. I, on the other hand, have the more dubious and prosaic distinction of being a regular target of Ian Millhiser.
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