Jonah Goldberg Quotes

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• The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

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  Love You, Government, Different

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.160, Crown Forum

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• Liberals are Nazis, and Nazis are liberals. And if you don't agree with me, you're a Nazi too.

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  Nazi, Agree, Ifs

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• If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

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  Government, Doors, America

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.334, Crown Forum

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• [Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to make people do and be what liberals want. And that makes all the difference in the world.

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  Differences, People, World

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• Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

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  Political, Telling The Truth, Politician

  "Civilization Envy" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. September 28, 2001.

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• And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.

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  Long, Mind, Want

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• The white male is the Jew of liberal fascism.

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  White, Males, Fascism

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.368, Crown Forum

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• The suggestion that liberals aren't moralizers is so preposterous it makes it hard for me to take any of them seriously when they wax indignant about "moralizers." Almost every day, they tell us what is moral or immoral to think and to say about race, taxes, abortion - you name it. They explain it would be immoral for me to spend more of my own money on my own children when that money could be spent by government on other people's children. In short, they think moralizing is fine. They just want to have a monopoly on the franchise.

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  Children, Thinking, Race

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• America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

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  Pursuit Of Happiness, America, Political

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.20, Crown Forum

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• Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

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  Lefties, Bumps, Facts

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• Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

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  Champion, Liberty, Politics

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.394, Crown Forum

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• Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

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  Mean, Hug, Nannies

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• Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism, and today's liberalism is the daughter of Progressivism.

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  Daughter, Movement, Today

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.2, Crown Forum

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• Nothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them shriek unreasonable things for you. The Republicans need to get back to being the party that elicits unreasonable shrieking from their opponents. Not the other way around.

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  Crazy, Party, Needs

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• One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of the category error. They all want the state to be something it cannot be. They passionately believe the government can love you, that the state can be your God or your church or your tribe or your parent or your village or all of these things at once. Conservatives occasionally make this mistake, libertarians never do, liberals almost always do.

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  Mistake, Believe, Love You

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• Look, I think liberals have reasonable gripes with Fox News. It does lean to the right, primarily in its opinion programming but also in its story selection (which is fine by me) and elsewhere. But it's worth remembering that Fox is less a bastion of ideological conservatism and more a populist, tabloidy network.

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  Thinking, Doe, Looks

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• If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and power of government to interfere with individual rights or the free market, is a lot different from an ethnic-nationalist, atheistic, and socialist program of genocide and international aggression, you should use this rule of thumb: If someone isn’t advocating the murder of millions of people in gas chambers and a global Reich for the White Man you shouldn’t assume he’s a Nazi and you should know it’s pretty damn evil to call him one.

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  Stupid, Philosophy, Men

  "Springtime For Slanderers" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. January 5, 2001.

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• Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

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  Liberty, Moral, Economic

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• The Founders understood that democracy was important, but if you didn't filter it through a republican system you'd be just as likely to end up with a tyranny of the majority as you would with a healthy society. Don't worry, I won't quote the Federalist Papers, but trust me, it's in there.

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  Worry, Healthy, Democracy

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• Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who cleaned up the food supply, pushed through the eight hour workday, and ended child labor. But liberals often forget that the progressives were imperialists, at home and abroad. They were the authors of Prohibition, the Palmer Raids, eugenics, loyalty oaths, and, in its modern incarnation, what many call “state capitalism.

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  Christian, Loyalty, Children

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• Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent forested. Today it is more than 66 percent. In 1850, Vermont was only 35 percent forested. Now it's 76 percent forested and rising. In the south, more land is covered by forest than at any time in the last century. In 1936 a study found that 80 percent of piedmont Georgia was without trees. Today nearly 70 percent of the state is forested. In the last decade alone, America has added more than 10 million acres of forestland.

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  New York, War, America

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• Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.

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  Guilt, Spy, President

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• Joe Biden says the Wall Street crisis is the result of George W. Bush's tax cuts, which makes as much sense as blaming the rising price of fairy dust. But as a wise man once asked, Who gives a rat's patoot what Joe Biden thinks?

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  Wise, Wall, Cutting

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• When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable. Having a serious argument with a Nazi makes the horror of the Holocaust a debatable point. Don't wrestle in the mud with pigs. You get dirty and the pig likes it.

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  Dirty, Pigs, Holocaust

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• But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem.

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  School, Unique, College

  "Do Liberals Live Under A 'Tyranny Of Cliches'?". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2012.

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