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

Thomas Sowell

Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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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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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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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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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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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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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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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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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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