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

Thomas Sowell

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Evade Failure Ignorance Record Social
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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Capital Government Income Market Poor
As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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Entrepreneur Experience Learning Pain People Work
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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Freedom Government Justice Law Liberty People
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Decide Economics Inspirational Liberty
Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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Character Management Racism Record Time
Intellect is not wisdom.
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Intelelct One Liner Wisdom
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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Department Diversity Republic Social Time
To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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Destroy People Responsiblity Role Society Vision
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Doer Specialty Talker
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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
I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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