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Humility, prudence, and honesty are not just nice virtues to have—they are practical tools that produce good outcomes. When you replace them with greed, lust, hypocrisy, and dishonesty, terrible things happen.

— David Brooks

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If you don’t offer people a positive, uplifting nationalism, they will grab the nasty one. History and recent events have shown us that.

When you create an administration in which one man has all the power and everybody else has to flatter his voracious ego, stupidity results.

Britain is blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known each other since prep school. This makes it gossipy and often incestuous.

Trumpism is a giant effort to narrow the circle of concern to people just like us.

It is indisputably true that Saddam has not disarmed. If people are going to vote against a resolution saying Saddam has not disarmed then they are liars.

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