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The next time your daughter asks, 'Where are all the men?' Tell them that the Democratic party and its policies got rid of them'

The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.

The Obama administration will never say 'radical Islam.' Never.

The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.

The only thing socialists produce is debt and self-esteem

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil

There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.

Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.

There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims.

There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives

There is a very good thing about hating evil. If you hate evil, that's all you will hate

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those who believe, by those who don't believe.

There is no apology from any Muslim leader for all the massacres of Christians

There is no benefit to the conservative sinner in being a conservative. There is great benefit to the liberal sinner in being a liberal.

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the moral bases of Western civilization and therefore of nearly all moral progress in the world.

There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not.

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I.

There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.

The right wing walks the walk; the left wing taxes the people that walk the walk

The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think young people need to receive wisdom from their elders, and value moral clarity, the university is the last place you would want to send your 18-year-old.

The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war

The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world

The United States of America is a flawed society. As it comprises human beings, it must be flawed. But in terms of the goodness achieved inside its borders and spread elsewhere in the world, it has been the finest country that ever existed. If you were to measure the moral gulf between America and those who despise it, the divide would have to be calculated in light-years.

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind

The welfare state corrupts family life. Even Democrats have acknowledged the destructive consequences of the welfare state on the underclass. It has rendered vast numbers of male unnecessary to females, who have looked to the state to support them and their children (and the more children, the more state support) rather than to husbands. In effect, these women took the state as their husband.

The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults

The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them. But today's workers don't have enough money to sustain the scheme, and there are too few of them to do so. As a result, virtually every welfare state in Europe, and many American states, like California are going broke.

The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme

The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.

The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate

The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.

The worldview of the Left is a battle between rich and poor

This is the belief of the Left: You negotiate with evil, and get tough with your allies

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day).

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

Those who don't hate evil hate those who do

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.

To say murder is wrong is as much a statement of faith as 'I believe that God said murder is wrong' is a statement of faith