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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

Thomas Sowell

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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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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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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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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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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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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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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