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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

Thomas Sowell

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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?
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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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