"It is so easy to be wrong-and..." - Quote by Thomas Sowell
It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
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“The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf.”
“In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.”
“If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.”
More on Responsibility
“No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.”
“If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.”
“If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain”
More on Consequences
“The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not we will not travel down that hellish path blindly.”
“One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.”
“Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities and the capabilities off what can be accomplished by rhetoric or even by political power.”