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.
THOMAS SOWELLIt 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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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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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 next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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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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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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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