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

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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 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. "

" 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.' "

" The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. "

" All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts. "

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

" Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. "

" Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses. "

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

" Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. "

" 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. "

" Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. "

" Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education. "

" Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. "

" People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. "

" Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. "

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

" What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. "

" 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. "

" Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help. "

" A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely. "

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

" Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention. "

" The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. "

" Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. "

" Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. "

" 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. "

" All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics. "

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

" The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.' "