| Author |
Quotes |
| Thomas Sowell | Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. |
| Thomas Sowell | If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is -- and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive. |
| Thomas Sowell | The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. |
| Thomas Sowell | What is politically defined as economic "planning" is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by government officials. |
| Thomas Sowell | If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. |
| Thomas Sowell | Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days. |
| Thomas Sowell | The celebration of unbounded individualism means, beyond some point, the acceptance of force- either private or public . |
| Thomas Sowell | Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force. |
| Thomas Sowell | Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. |
| Thomas Sowell | Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.". |
| Thomas Sowell | No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with? |
| Thomas Sowell | Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far. |
| Thomas Sowell | Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel. |
| Thomas Sowell | What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race. |
| Thomas Sowell | The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. |
| Thurgood Marshall | Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. |
| Timothy Firnstahl | Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best. |
| Tobias G Smollett | Glory is the child of peril. |
| Tom Bradley | People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn't do anywhere else. |
| Tom Stoppard | It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. |
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