Wesley Pruden Quotes

• Las metáforas militares rara vez son exactas, pero enviar a republicanos contra demócratas cuando la cuestión pende de un hilo es casi siempre tan inútil como enviar a George B. McClellan contra Robert E. Lee, a los italianos contra las ratas del desierto del mariscal Montgomery o a una división blindada árabe contra una compañía de fusiles israelí. La redacción puede escribir el titular antes de que empiece la batalla y tomarse el resto de la noche libre.

  Wesley Pruden

  Military, Writing, Night

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• No one, and the liberal cognoscenti least of all, wants to look at why, after decades of throwing money at a rotting educational establishment and years of racial preferences black students are worse off than ever.

  Wesley Pruden

  Educational, Years, Black

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• Washington honors the Platinum Rule above all: 'Do it unto others before they do it unto you'.

  Wesley Pruden

  Honor, Platinum

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• Cutting corners no doubt makes the job easier for the government, but making the government's job easier is rarely a priority. Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is.

  Wesley Pruden

  Trabajo, Lucha, Recorte

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• Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.

  Wesley Pruden

  Envy, Greed, Replaced

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• Congress is the third branch of government... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works out to, hmmm, well, someone else can do the math. You wouldn't think such little wheels could make so much noise.

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  Math, Thinking, Government

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• The only argument this president needs to persuade Americans is that sacking Saddam is necessary for the security of America and the West, of civilization as we know it. All those other goals are nice, worthy even, but irrelevant to the job immediately at hand.

  Wesley Pruden

  Jobs, War, Nice

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• If what happens in Las Vegas is supposed to stay in Las Vegas, how did Harry Reid get out?

  Wesley Pruden

  Vegas, Las Vegas, Happens

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• Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he famously said that if he had to choose between government without newspapers and newspapers without government, he would cheerfully choose to live in a land with newspapers (even not very good ones) and no government.

  Wesley Pruden

  Government, Land, Newspapers

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