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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.

Thomas Sowell

Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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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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Absence Born Civil Effect Generation Late
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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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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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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Basketball Black Black Lives Matter Racism Suicide
As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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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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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Charge Excitement Meeting One Liner People
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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