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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.

Thomas Sowell

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Charge Excitement Meeting One Liner People
Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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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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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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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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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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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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