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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Thomas Sowell

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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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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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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