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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Thomas Sowell

What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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Advocate Government Party Politics Understand
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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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.
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Complain Government Money Politics Promise Vote
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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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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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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