How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“But that such an administration could be elected in the first place, headed by a man whose only qualifications to be President… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
“those parts of the British Isles without the advantage of coal deposits or ports, industrialization was as handicapped as in other countries.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy". — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
