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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.

Thomas Sowell

Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Blind Fly Future Past
It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Literature Music Philosophy Value
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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Freedom Government Liberty Money People World
The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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Ear Eat Instrument Music People True Weight Loss
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Ego Elite Mass State Welfare
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Agony Blood Cheap Cost Freedom Price
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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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.
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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 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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