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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.

Thomas Sowell

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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Black Lives Matter Era Justice People Social
The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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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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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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