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" 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. "
Thomas Sowell
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" Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is. "
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" 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. "
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" Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is. "
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" 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. "
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Run
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" There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds? "
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Question
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Words
" If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say. "
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Say
Present
Opinion
" 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. "
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Knowledge
Society
Information
" 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. "
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Always
Government
More
" The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. "
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Depend
Government
Left
" Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses. "
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" People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. "
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People
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" 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. "
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Price
Education
Gender
" 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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Price
People
Decisions
" Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. "
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Pay
Day
Elections
" 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. "
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You
Today
" 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. "
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Than
Demand
Somebody
" The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. "
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Important
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" Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. "
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Against
Speak
Mere
" The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. "
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Ideas
Find
" 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.' "
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Society
Problems
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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. "
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Want
Government
Life
" There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. "
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Ways
" Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow. "
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" Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. "
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" Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. "
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" People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. "
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" Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. "
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Help
Immigration