When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to 'change the United States of America,' the people he has been… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply: happen: to people, rather than… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Someone once said that many bad policies are just good policies that have been carried too far. For example, we have taken… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Any judicial nominee who has said that the Constitution means what it says, not what judges would like it to mean, is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see… — 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
