Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
THOMAS SOWELLLife does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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What 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.
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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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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