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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.

Thomas Sowell

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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Achievement Destroy Equality Freedom Interest People
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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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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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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Attitude Fashion Galaxy Imagination Information People
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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Absence Born Civil Effect Generation Late
One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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Consequences Contribution Economics People Politics Society
In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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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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Ending Equality Freedom Society
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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Complex People Pride Realize Simplicity Truth
Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Exploitation Reality Rhetoric Substitute
What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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