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" All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. "

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" Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. "

" Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. "

" I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with. "

" Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow. "

" Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. "

" Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. "

" There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. "

" The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction. "

" The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. "

" In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people. "

" The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. "

" Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. "

" Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing. "

" There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. "

" Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. "

" If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. "

" Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. "

" The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. "

" One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. "

" Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. "

" The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up. "

" Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all. "

" It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. "

" The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. "

" Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more. "

" People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. "

" Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. "

" You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. "

" It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.' "