"It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think."
- Thomas Sowell
"People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth."
"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously."
"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to sur..."
"Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others."
"Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric."
"The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy."
"What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out? Ye..."
"The staunchest conservatives advocate a range of changes which differ in specifics, rather than in number or magnitude, from the changes advocated by those considered liberal…change, as such, is simpl..."
"Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it poss..."