Thomas Sowell Quotes
When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That is what the political left is all about, as you can see by the incessant creation of new restrictions in places where they are strongly entrenched in power, such as San Francisco or New York.
Thomas Sowell
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E. W. Howe
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W. E. B. Du Bois
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Alice Cooper
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Elizabeth von Arnim
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Clarissa Pinkola Estes
When you hear that a certain man is so good that he wants to help everybody, you may depend upon it that he started the story.
E. W. Howe
You cannot deal with an industrial-strength extremist problem just with force of arms. You have to have that political component as well.
David Petraeus
When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That is what the political left is all about, as you can see by the incessant creation of new restrictions in places where they are strongly entrenched in power, such as San Francisco or New York.
Thomas Sowell