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If the UN adopts the kind of resolution authorizing force to enforce the kind of inspections that they should have a resolution adopted for, then I believe this resolution should say: In the event the UN adopts a resolution authorizing member states to use force to enforce the inspections, I believe this resolution should say that under those circumstances we should authorize force to enforce that UN resolution.
Carl Levin, chairman of the USA’s Senate Armed Services Committee, summing up the current Democrat position on attacking Iraq, reproduced by Mark Steyn in his Chicago Sun-Times column yesterday
Delectable! Her derriere is the very apogee of nadirs
– Overheard recently by Samizdata Illuminatus
They have an engine called the Press, whereby the people are deceived.
– C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength, p. 292
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual
– Thomas Jefferson
What’s the point of going out? We’re just gonna wind up back here anyway.
– another slice of The Wisdom of Homer Simpson
Hey, just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand!
– a slice of The Wisdom of Homer Simpson
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
– G. K. Chesterton
Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,
But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.
– Hillare Belloc
Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.
– John C. Calhoun
Labour takes money from Sun readers and gives it to Guardian readers, who then decide how best it should be spent.
– Richard Littlejohn
Everyone wants peace – and they will fight the most terrible war to get it.
– Miles Kingston
In the Victorian era a curious belief was prevalent that sovereign states ought to have governments that were reasonably efficient and solvent.
– Byron Farwell
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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