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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they dont like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, dont expect freedom to survive very long. – 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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. – Thomas Sowell

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

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I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than Ive ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children. – Criss Angel

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Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom… right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they dont personally approve of. – Neal Boortz

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Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. – Xun Zi

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We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody whos lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue. – Mark Steyn

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