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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.

Thomas Sowell

Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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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 would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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