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.
THOMAS SOWELLHeedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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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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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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