Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
THOMAS SOWELLIf you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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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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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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