The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental… — 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 Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
