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One of the things that makes me a conservative, or a libertarian, or whatever the heck it is that i am - a person who doesn't much like big government - is that i do not like the concentration of the power.
-P. J. O'Rourke
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One Of The Things That Makes Me

P. J. O'Rourke
One of the things that makes me a conservative, or a libertarian, or whatever the heck it is that i am - a person who doesn't much like big government - is that i do not like the concentration of the power.
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Abuse of power isn't limited to 'bad guys' in other nations. it happens in our own country. those in power get jaded, deluded, and seduced by power itself. i have a reverence for individuality. i've always considered myself too individualistic to be either right-wing or left-wing. i like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. people should be able to be what they want to be and do what they want - as long as they're not harming other people. i am a libertarian.
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A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being for any reason whatever; nor will a libertarian advocate the initiation of force, or delegate it to anyone else. those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.
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I am not a libertarian, and i fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the republican party and the conservative movement.
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If you go to the right conservative places you'll find there's a huge argument about this among conservatives, particularly the conservative elites and the conservative intellectuals. there's always an argument among our people over who's the smartest person in the room and they're always trying to outsmart each other with the fanciest smartest most obscure argument. the fact is these arguments are taking place within the conservative movement i think quite a lot.
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We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. for it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. it is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. these experiences are not "recollected" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is "tranquil" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.
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Seriously. it was running out at rolling stone. first of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in a world where certain conservative aspects had become intellectually dominant. i would actually argue against that, but on the surface of it, in the [bill] clinton years the market economy triumphed, certain libertarian ideas became ordinary, and certain early-20th-century ideas about centralization of government and economic planning and socialism with a small "s" had obviously gone out the window. the cold war was over, blah blah blah.
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