Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
THOMAS SOWELLIf 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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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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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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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