There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
THOMAS SOWELLIt 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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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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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 have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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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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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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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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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 fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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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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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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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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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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