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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.

Thomas Sowell

The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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Advocate Government Party Politics Understand
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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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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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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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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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.

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