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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.

Thomas Sowell

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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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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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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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