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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Thomas Sowell

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Conservative Solution Trade
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Hand People Time Waste Wasted Time Work
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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Advocate Government Party Politics Understand
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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Destroy People Responsiblity Role Society Vision
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
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Consider Ignorance Knowledge Realize
Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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Alternative Choas Government Imagination People Planning
Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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Born Business Capital Company Failure Inspirational
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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Earn Greedy Human Nature Money
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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Afford Government Pay People Positive Thinking
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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Achievement Destroy Equality Freedom Interest People
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Agony Blood Cheap Cost Freedom Price
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Brain Human Nature People Repetition Scary
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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Advantage Civil Economics Knowledge Man Requirement
The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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Confuse Feelings Problem Reading Thinking Trouble

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