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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Thomas Sowell

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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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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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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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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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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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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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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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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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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