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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.

Thomas Sowell

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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