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.
THOMAS SOWELLNo amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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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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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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