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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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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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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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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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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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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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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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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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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 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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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