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Virtue has great power, but not if it is imposed—only when it is chosen.

— Dinesh D'Souza

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Americans are the friendliest people you will encounter, but they have few friends.

What's So Great About America (2003)

Strictly speaking, relativism does not permit social progress, because the new culture is by definition no better than the one it replaced.

The End of Racism (1995)

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

Racism originated not in ignorance and fear but as part of an enlightened enterprise of intellectual discovery.

The End of Racism (1995)

The American slave was treated like property, which is to say, pretty well.

The End of Racism (1995)

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

Martin Buber What is Man? (1938)

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

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