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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

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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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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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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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 government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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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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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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