Category: economist
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Being willing to donate the taxpayers’ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
Thomas Sowell
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
John Maynard Keynes
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
John Maynard Keynes
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
John Maynard Keynes
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President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.
Thomas Sowell
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
Thomas Sowell
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
Thomas Sowell
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The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals’ expansion of the welfare state.
Thomas Sowell
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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
Thomas Sowell
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Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Thomas Sowell