“After the American civil war, the U. S. Navy also joined the anti-slave patrols in the Atlantic.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Even when the British took part in these wars, they fought on other people's territory or at sea.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Before the Iraq war I was quite disturbed by some of the neoconservatives, who were saying things like, "What is the point… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from… — 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 idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“When a reporter who spent months in a Los Angeles high school asked graduating seniors what they had learned, he received this… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We cannot allow the defense of American lives to be held hostage by the United Nations -- which has already given Saddam… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In the second Boer war 26,000 Boer women and children perished in British concentration camps.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I hate to think that someday Americans will be looking at the ruins of their cities and saying that this happened because… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. — 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
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
