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" Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right? "

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" All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. "

Thomas Sowell

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" Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies. "

" Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. "

" The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. "

" If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. "

" The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country. "

" Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. "

" You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. "

" The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.' "

" The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. "

" All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts. "

Thomas Sowell

Beliefs

Very

" The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. "

" As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking. "

" Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is. "

" In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected. "

" The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. "

" Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is. "

" Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens. "

" Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. "

" There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. "

" Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more. "

Thomas Sowell

Always

Government

" There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. "

Thomas Sowell

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Misleading

" Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. "

" People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. "

" The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. "

" Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. "

" Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. "

" Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. "

" Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. "

" Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem. "