Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
THOMAS SOWELL
Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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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 has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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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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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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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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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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