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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “Only about one in a thousand of DACA’s participants had joined the military.”

51. “Only about one in a thousand of DACA’s participants had joined the military.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “Over many years bin Laden cited dozens of concocted reasons about why he attacked the United States; the only valid one was that he attacked America because he thought – to paraphrase Margaret Atwood – with good reason, he could get away with it.”

52. “Over many years bin Laden cited dozens of concocted reasons about why he attacked the United States; the only valid one was that he attacked America because he thought – to paraphrase Margaret Atwood – with good reason, he could get away with it.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “Few American commentators evaluated MacArthur’s strategic sense at various stages in his generalship in Korea; it was instead the perception of whether he was winning or losing that mattered most to the public.”

53. “Few American commentators evaluated MacArthur’s strategic sense at various stages in his generalship in Korea; it was instead the perception of whether he was winning or losing that mattered most to the public.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq – mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography, the sheer forces of language and religion, the propaganda of state-run Arab media and the cynicism of the liberal West are all stacked against them.”

54. “Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq – mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography, the sheer forces of language and religion, the propaganda of state-run Arab media and the cynicism of the liberal West are all stacked against them.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.”

55. “It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “When the successful military action against Saddam Hussein ended in April 2003, more than 70 percent of the American people backed the invasion of Iraq, with politicians and pundits alike elbowing each other aside to take credit for their prescient support.”

56. “When the successful military action against Saddam Hussein ended in April 2003, more than 70 percent of the American people backed the invasion of Iraq, with politicians and pundits alike elbowing each other aside to take credit for their prescient support.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “One-third of all American residents currently on welfare live in California, as do a quarter of the nation’s illegal aliens – a state where one in four was not born in the United States, but otherwise with just 12 percent of the population.”

57. “One-third of all American residents currently on welfare live in California, as do a quarter of the nation’s illegal aliens – a state where one in four was not born in the United States, but otherwise with just 12 percent of the population.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “But wars – or the threat of war – at least put an end to American chattel slavery, Nazism, Fascism, Japanese militarism, and Soviet Communism. It is hard to think of any democracy – Afghan, American, Athenian, contemporary German, Iraqi, Italian, Japanese, ancient Theban – that was not an outcome of armed struggle and war.”

58. “But wars – or the threat of war – at least put an end to American chattel slavery, Nazism, Fascism, Japanese militarism, and Soviet Communism. It is hard to think of any democracy – Afghan, American, Athenian, contemporary German, Iraqi, Italian, Japanese, ancient Theban – that was not an outcome of armed struggle and war.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “The shutdown may have temporarily sidetracked the Republicans, yet Obamacare threatens much worse for the Democrats. By 2014 the former will be ancient history, while the latter will be an ongoing mess.”

59. “The shutdown may have temporarily sidetracked the Republicans, yet Obamacare threatens much worse for the Democrats. By 2014 the former will be ancient history, while the latter will be an ongoing mess.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “With the demise of the inward-looking, stodgy yeomen, enormous wealth and poverty ensued. The Greek-speaking Hellenistic world could now use the Hellenic genius without ethical constraint.”

60. “With the demise of the inward-looking, stodgy yeomen, enormous wealth and poverty ensued. The Greek-speaking Hellenistic world could now use the Hellenic genius without ethical constraint.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “To assert that military history suggested that wars broke out because bad men, in fear or in pride, sought material advantage or status, or because sometimes good but naive men had done too little to deter them, was understandably seen as antithetical to a more enlightened understanding of human nature.”

61. “To assert that military history suggested that wars broke out because bad men, in fear or in pride, sought material advantage or status, or because sometimes good but naive men had done too little to deter them, was understandably seen as antithetical to a more enlightened understanding of human nature.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “After September 1939, perhaps one billion of the world’s roughly two billion population were soldiers, partisans, and producers engaged in trying to kill people.”

62. “After September 1939, perhaps one billion of the world’s roughly two billion population were soldiers, partisans, and producers engaged in trying to kill people.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “Mexica warriors were predicated on birth and status. In a cyclical pattern of cause and effect, such greater innate advantages gave aristocrats predominance on the battlefield in taking captives, which in turn provided proof of their martial excellence – and.”

63. “Mexica warriors were predicated on birth and status. In a cyclical pattern of cause and effect, such greater innate advantages gave aristocrats predominance on the battlefield in taking captives, which in turn provided proof of their martial excellence – and.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “One of the ancient and modern critiques of democracy is that radicals destroy norms for short-term political gain, norms that they themselves often later seek as refuge.”

64. “One of the ancient and modern critiques of democracy is that radicals destroy norms for short-term political gain, norms that they themselves often later seek as refuge.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “Citizenship, after all, is not an entitlement; it requires work. Yet too many citizens of republics, ancient and modern, come to believe that they deserve rights without assuming responsibilities – and they don’t worry how or why or from whom they inherited their privileges.1.”

65. “Citizenship, after all, is not an entitlement; it requires work. Yet too many citizens of republics, ancient and modern, come to believe that they deserve rights without assuming responsibilities – and they don’t worry how or why or from whom they inherited their privileges.1.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “America, then, is only as good as the citizens of any era who choose to preserve and to nourish it for one more generation. Republics are so often lost not over centuries but within a single decade.3.”

66. “America, then, is only as good as the citizens of any era who choose to preserve and to nourish it for one more generation. Republics are so often lost not over centuries but within a single decade.3.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “It is as if, when unhappy with the opulent present, we look to the impoverished past to blame our unhappiness on the dead, who faced daunting natural obstacles, rather than the living, who so often don’t.”

67. “It is as if, when unhappy with the opulent present, we look to the impoverished past to blame our unhappiness on the dead, who faced daunting natural obstacles, rather than the living, who so often don’t.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “Sometimes citizens can do as much harm to their commonwealth by violating custom and tradition as by breaking laws.”

68. “Sometimes citizens can do as much harm to their commonwealth by violating custom and tradition as by breaking laws.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “Saving the world is a much more ambitious, ennobling, and ego-gratifying project than preserving the neighborhood.”

69. “Saving the world is a much more ambitious, ennobling, and ego-gratifying project than preserving the neighborhood.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “The clever globe-trotting fox learns many things about the world, the local burrowing hedgehog only one: the essential truth that people are people, and learning how to understand and serve them begins at home with those one sees and speaks with face to face.”

70. “The clever globe-trotting fox learns many things about the world, the local burrowing hedgehog only one: the essential truth that people are people, and learning how to understand and serve them begins at home with those one sees and speaks with face to face.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Quote: “Wealthy tech workers in San Francisco hold frequent conferences and symposia about addressing water, sewage, and disease in Africa, but they have demonstrated no ability to address California’s own fetid city streets, which are home to over three hundred thousand homeless and rife with medieval diseases, refuse, excrement, and rodents.”

71. “Wealthy tech workers in San Francisco hold frequent conferences and symposia about addressing water, sewage, and disease in Africa, but they have demonstrated no ability to address California’s own fetid city streets, which are home to over three hundred thousand homeless and rife with medieval diseases, refuse, excrement, and rodents.”

— Victor Davis Hanson

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