Thomas Sowell

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

Thomas Sowell

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Thomas Sowell

Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can’t stop with just one.

Thomas Sowell

Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.

Thomas Sowell

Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.

Thomas Sowell

Government’s power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

Thomas Sowell

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

Thomas Sowell

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

Thomas Sowell

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals’ imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

Thomas Sowell

I’m always embarrassed when people say that I’m courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.

Thomas Sowell