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“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
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“All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.”
― Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
― Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
“Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.”
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“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
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“Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights -- the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery -- hay and a barn for human cattle. There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”
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