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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.

Thomas Sowell

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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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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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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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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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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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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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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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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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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