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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.

Thomas Sowell

If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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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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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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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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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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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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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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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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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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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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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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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