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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.

Thomas Sowell

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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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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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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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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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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