What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over 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
As far as party primaries are concerned, both Republican - and Democratic - Party primaries are dominated by the most zealous voters,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote… — 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
The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The way to get people's votes is to say that all their problems are caused by other people, and that you will… — 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
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
