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It is clear that 'social Darwinism' and 'survival of the fittest' were intended by Obama to evoke feelings of fear and disgust. It is highly doubtful that Obama knows anything about the history of these ideas, and it is even more doubtful that he cares. A concern for truth is not the coin of the political realm.

— George H. Smith

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One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.

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The physical capacity to coerce others can never generate a moral obligation to obey the dictates of [government] power.

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Taxes, then, are a necessary means for the maintenance of political power, so the laws, first and foremost, must enforce compulsory taxation.

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Taxes forcibly transfer wealth from producers to legislators, who justify their expropriations under cover of law.

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The Christian theologian will never find a contradiction between the propositions of faith and reason, because it is his job to interpret them out of existence.

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