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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

Thomas Sowell

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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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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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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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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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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