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
Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many… — 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
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The biggest difference between people is between those who are trying to do the right thing - whether or not they succeed… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than… — 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