Thomas Sowell quotes

[tmleadr03]

“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves”

[BUC303]

"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good."

"Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help."

"The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending."

There are so many good ones, I could go on all day

[BushMasterBoy]

"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."

And this one

"A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

[Sharpienads]

Thomas Sowell is awesome. And if you don't like him, you're obviously racist.

[BUC303]

"In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected."