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

Thomas Sowell

The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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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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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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