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.
THOMAS SOWELLReality does not go away when it is ignored.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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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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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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