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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

Thomas Sowell

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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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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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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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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