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.
THOMAS SOWELLWe seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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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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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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 doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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