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Thomas Sowell

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

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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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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

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"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

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"All professions are a conspiracy against the country."

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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

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"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."

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"Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism."

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"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."

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"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."

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"Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems."

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