Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
Thomas SowellThe biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.
Thomas SowellCentral planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.
Thomas SowellWe cannot allow the defense of American lives to be held hostage by the United Nations -- which has already given Saddam Hussein a final warning, and now wants to give him another final warning. And, if he doesn't heed that, they will threaten him with yet another warning.
Thomas Sowell