Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
THOMAS SOWELLSocialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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