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

Thomas Sowell

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 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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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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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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
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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DAngry Decision Imagination People Price Stupidity
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Charge Excitement Meeting One Liner People
Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Confuse Democracy Different Freedom
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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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