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Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense

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. – Thomas Sowell

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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. – Thomas Sowell

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As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking. – Thomas Sowell

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Hope
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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. – Thomas Sowell

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Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. – Fred Woodworth, The Match!, No.79

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Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. – Henry Clay

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As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the governments role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital. – Donald Evans

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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. – Ronald Reagan

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…those dulcet sounds at break of day… – George Granville, 1701, via Shakespeare

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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. – George Orwell

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I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick. – Sarah Palin

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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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