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

Thomas Sowell

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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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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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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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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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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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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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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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