Quote by Thomas Sowell Download Open image ““1950, Britain's share was down to 3 percent and that of the United States was 82 percent.”” — Thomas Sowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“1870, Britain produced 32 percent of all the manufactured goods in the world, followed by the United States at 23 percent and Germany at 13 percent.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“When the war was over and the British returned in 1945, there were less than 600,000. A million people dead or gone. Nearly two… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
“Shortly before the outbreak of the Great War it was calculated that four per cent of the population of England held ninety per cent of all the wealth of the country. In the United States sixty percent of the wealth was held by two per cent of the people while at the other extreme of the social scale sixty-five per… — Joseph Casper Husslein Copy Share
“With industrial capacity destroyed in Europe—except for Scandinavia—and in Japan and crippled in the United Kingdom, the United States produced approximately 60 percent of… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
“over the next thirty years. After World War II, the highest maximum rates reached 70–91 percent. Were” — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“Today, the US median income is still below where it was at the beginning of this century.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“If we compare the gap separating rich and poor, whether measured by overall assets or annual income, we find that in every continental European… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“By 1912, the British Empire had a population of more than 440 million people, of whom only 10 percent lived in the British Isles.41” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Britain was overtaken not only in gross output but also in output per worker. It lost its lead in technological innovation.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In contrast to what many people in Britain and the United States believe, the true figures on growth (as best one can judge from official national accounts data) show that Britain and the United States have not grown any more rapidly since 1980 than Germany, France, Japan, Denmark, or Sweden. In other words, the reduction of top marginal income tax… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share
“Up until 1981, all classes of income were rising at about the same rate. However, in about 1981 a split started to happen. The… — Dean Graziosi Copy Share Image
“But harder heads saw another advantage in taking sides in a distant struggle: Britain and France owed massive debts to American companies. If the… — Joseph E. Persico 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