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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.

Thomas Sowell

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Ego Elite Mass State Welfare
If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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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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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.

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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.

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