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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 amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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Bail Economy Life Lost Mortage People
Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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Liar People Politics Reflection Satisfaction Shame
Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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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 is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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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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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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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’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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Complain Government Money Politics Promise Vote
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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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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