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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.

Thomas Sowell

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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