Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

Thomas Sowell

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

Thomas Sowell

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Thomas Sowell

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

Thomas Sowell

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

Thomas Sowell

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

Thomas Sowell

Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

Thomas Sowell

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

Thomas Sowell

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Thomas Sowell

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

Thomas Sowell

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Thomas Sowell

Intellect is not wisdom.

Thomas Sowell