Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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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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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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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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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 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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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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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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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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