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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

Thomas Sowell

I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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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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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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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It 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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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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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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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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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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