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Freedom shrinks as government grows

The more powerful the national government grows, the less free Americans will become.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 9, 2021February 9, 2021Categories government, libertyTags Dennis Prager

Fairness

Fairness is not redistributing wealth. Fairness is rewarding merit, and that’s what free enterprise does.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 31, 2021January 31, 2021Categories capitalismTags Dennis Prager

Capitalism vs. socialism

Capitalism makes. Socialism takes. Socialism spends the money that capitalism earns.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 21, 2021January 21, 2021Categories capitalism, socialismTags Dennis Prager

Gratitude vs. entitlement

Capitalism teaches people to be grateful for what they’ve earned. Socialism teaches people to be entitled to what others produced. Socialism makes people selfish.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 23, 2020Categories capitalism, socialismTags Dennis Prager

What every principal should tell his students

To the students and faculty of our high school:

I am your new principal, and honored to be so. There is no greater calling than to teach young people.
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Author Greg RavenPosted on May 10, 2017November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories educationTags Dennis Prager

Demographics and crime

Sweden, which for much of its modern history has had among the world’s lowest rates of violent crime, was almost always as homogenous as Japan. Now that it has admitted hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa, it is no longer a homogenous country, and its levels of violence have increased dramatically.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 28, 2017November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories culture, immigration, raceTags Dennis Prager

The fatter the government, the skinnier the people

The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 22, 2014November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Dennis Prager

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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