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" 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. "

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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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" Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. "

" 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. "

" Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. "

" Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society. "

" 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. "

" Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right? "

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

" In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected. "

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

" The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. "

" Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem. "

" The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best. "

" Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. "

" 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. "

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

" The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. "

" It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all. "

" If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. "

" 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. "

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

" The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. "