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Thomas Sowell

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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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 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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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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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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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 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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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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