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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Thomas Sowell

Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Discrimination People Politics Treatment
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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Confuse Democracy Different Freedom
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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Afford Government Pay People Positive Thinking
Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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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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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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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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Believe Claim Liberty People Politics Solution
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

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