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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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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. – Thomas Sowell

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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. – Thomas Sowell

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

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I needed freedom to really express myself. Thats really what Justified is about. – Justin Timberlake

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America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy. – Brent Scowcroft

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