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Monday, August 25. 2014

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"[W]ealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery, women from exploitation. Businesses can be started, homes built, communities formed, religions practiced, educations pursued. But liberals aren't very interested in such real and material freedoms. They have a more innocent -- not to say toddlerlike -- idea of freedom. Liberals want the freedom to put anything into their mouths, to say bad words and to expose their private parts in art museums."


 P. J. O'Rourke

Posted by The News Junkie in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 11:31 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Good quote but I wouldn't say they don't have an interest in the real and material freedoms. They just have the same toddlerlike attitude - that such things would simply be provided if mom and dad weren't so darn mean.
#1 ChristopherB on 2014-08-25 11:50 (Reply)
I think PJ is right about wealth. I imagine even NYC would be fun if one could afford the $15 cocktails and $100 meals.

As for the libs, they want to be rich as much or more than anyone else. As PJ says, with wealth comes power and the one things libs want more than anything is power over their fellow men.
#2 feeblemind on 2014-08-25 13:37 (Reply)
The nice thing about wealth, though, is that it usually doesn't give other people power over me unless I let it, whereas it's often adequate to the task of giving me independence from their meddling.
#3 Texan99 on 2014-08-25 17:08 (Reply)

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