Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
THOMAS SOWELLRhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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 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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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.
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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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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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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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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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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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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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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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