Quote by Thomas Sowell
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they dont like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, dont expect freedom to survive very long. – Thomas Sowell

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Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns. – Thomas Sowell

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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best. – Thomas Sowell

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best
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Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. – Thomas Sowell

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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. – Daniel Webster

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Freedom

I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than Ive ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children. – Criss Angel

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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. – Arthur Erickson

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In America its live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well. – Vince McMahon

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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. – George Sand

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Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds — a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career. – Albert Camus

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. – Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625

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