Thomas Sowell Quotes
Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.
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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.
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It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.
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For the poor, the economic is spiritual.
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An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.
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Research in the past has wound up abusing, harming or hurting people. You want to stick to these regulations as carefully as possible, because they really make sure the welfare and interests of human subjects are protected.
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Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.
