Quotes to edify and inspire
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| Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it |
Thomas Sowell | |||
| It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance |
Thomas Sowell | |||
| 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 |
Thomas Sowell | |||
| The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly |
Thomas Sowell | |||
| Envy plus rhetoric equals ‘social justice’ |
Thomas Sowell | |||
| Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice |
Thomas Paine | |||
| My country is the world, and my religion is to do good |
Thomas Paine | |||
| Reason obeys itself, and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it |
Thomas Paine | |||
| Reputation is what men and women think of us, character is what God and angels know of us |
Thomas Paine | |||
| Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.” |
Thomas Paine | |||