Thomas Sowell Quotes
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I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.
Ralph Boston -
Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
Hank Johnson -
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
Naguib Mahfouz -
Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.
Ted Cruz -
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl Marx
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God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
Yehuda Berg -
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
Ferdinand Mount -
The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
Sam Brownback -
European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government.
Carles Puigdemont -
There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.
Taylor Branch
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
Barry Goldwater -
A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
Iqbal Quadir -
We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.
Nadia Comaneci -
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.
Samuel Freeman Miller -
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
H. L. Mencken -
I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also.
Harold H. Greene
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Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
Garet Garrett -
It used to be you sat up in your attic and wrote and went down to a local cafe and talked with people there.
Ethan Canin -
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
Samuel Johnson -
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
Ian Fleming -
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
Thomas Sowell