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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.

Thomas Sowell

No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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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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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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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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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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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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