Wednesday, February 15, 2023

PJ O'Rourke Quotes for Today

PJ O'Rourke died a year ago today. Here are some of my favorite quotes from him.

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P.J. O'Rourke

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke 

"Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum." - P.J. O'Rourke

"There are just two rules of governance in a free society. Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself." - P.J. O'Rourke

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  1. "The eighties, . . . when Bill Clinton was only a microscopic polyp in the colon of American politics and Hillary was still in flight school — hadn’t even soloed on her broom."

    "Let us all salute (and be sensitive to the needs of) the shiftless, the feckless, the senseless, the worthwhileness-impaired, the decency-challenged, and the differently moraled. And hello to their leaders — progressive, committed, and filled to the nose holes with enormous esteem for themselves."

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  2. Had had a way of turning a phrase.

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