No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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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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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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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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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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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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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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 next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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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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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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