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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

Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Blind Fly Future Past
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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Consitution Court Economics Government Politics
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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Decide Deserve God Role
No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Blood History Human Politics Story Treasure
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
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Argument Extrapolation Ground Refuge
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Intelligance One Liner Philosophy Politics Smart Thinking
It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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Battle Peace People Violence War
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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