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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

Thomas Sowell

Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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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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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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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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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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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

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