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Racism has never done this country any good, and it needs to be fought against, not put under new management for different groups.

— Thomas Sowell

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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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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

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