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.
THOMAS SOWELLThe really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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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 takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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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 really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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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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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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We 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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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