Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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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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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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