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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.

Thomas Sowell

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 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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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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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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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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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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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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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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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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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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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