210 Quotes by Jonah Goldberg

Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state.

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.

When activists say we need to move past the partisan divide, what they mean is: Shut up and get with my program. Have you ever heard anyone say, "We need to get past all of this partisan squabbling and name-calling. That's why I'm going to abandon all my objections and agree with you"?

There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.

The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.

You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it.

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.