“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”

— P. J. O'Rourke , book Give War a Chance

Give War a Chance (1992)

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