Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
THOMAS SOWELLWhat all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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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.
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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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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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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.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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