"Government does not cause affluence.  Citizens of totalitarian countries 
have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.  And absence of 
government doesn't work, either.  For a millionyears years mankind had no 
government at all, and everyone's relatives were naked in the trees." 
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Eat The Rich: A Treatise On Economics." Pg.2, Ch. 1.

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation,
the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
-- P. J. O'Rourke
(1947- ) US humorist, journalist, & political commentator
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"When a government controls both the economic power of individuals
and the coercive power of the state ...
this violates a fundamental rule of happy living:
Never let the people with all the money and
the people with all the guns be the same people." -- P. J. O'Rourke
(1947- ) US humorist, journalist, & political commentator

The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work 
and then gets elected and proves it. -P.J. O'Rourke

"Americans hate foreign policy.  Americans hate foreign policy, 
because Americans hate foreigners.  Americans hate foreigners because 
Americans are foreigners.  We all come from foreign lands, even if we 
came ten thousand years ago on a land bridg across the Bering Straight.  
We didn't want anything to do with those Ice Age Siberians, them with 
cave-bear-pelt underwear and mamoth meat on their breath.  We were off 
to the Pacific North West---great salmon fishing, blowout potluck dinners, 
a whole new life.
America is not "globaly conscious" or "multicultural."  Americans didn't come 
to America to be Limey Poofters, Frog-Eaters, Bucket Heads, Micks, Spicks, 
Sheenies, or Wogs.  If we wanted foreign entanglements, we would have stayed 
home.  Or---in the case of those of us who were shipped to America against our 
will, as slaves, exiles, or transported prisoners---we would have gone back.  
Events in Liberia and the type of American who lives in Paris tell us what to 
think of that.
Being foreigners ourselves, we Americans know what foreigners are up to with 
their foreign policy---thier venomous convents, lying alliances, greedy agreements, 
and trick-or-treaties.  America is not a wily, sneaky, nation.  We don't think that 
way.  We don't think much at all, thank God.  Start thinking and pretty soon you get 
ideas, and then you get idealism, and next thing you know you've got ideology, with 
millions dead in concentration camps and gulags.  A fundemental American question 
is "What's the big idea?" -- P. J. O'Rourke, Former National Lampoon 
Contributing/Managing/Alumni Editor; Peace Kills: Americas New Imperialism; Pg.5 -- 
Ch. 1 "Why Americans Hate Foreign Policy."

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. 
And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."
-- P. J. O'Rourke (1947- ) US humorist, journalist, & political commentator 1993
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