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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.

Thomas Sowell

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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Battle Peace People Violence War
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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 in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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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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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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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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