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" You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody. "
Thomas Sowell
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" If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. "
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" 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. "
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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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" All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. "
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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. "
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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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" The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best. "
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" 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. "
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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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" President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again. "
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" 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. "
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" Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. "
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" 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. "
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" Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. "
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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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