For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
THOMAS SOWELLNo amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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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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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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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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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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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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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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