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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

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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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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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Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

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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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Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: June 30th, 1930

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