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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?

Thomas Sowell

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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Freedom Government Liberty Money People World
Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Death Friendship Life Partner Power
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Decide Economics Inspirational Liberty
Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Agony Blood Cheap Cost Freedom Price
The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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Confuse Feelings Problem Reading Thinking Trouble
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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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