"All the political angst and moral melodrama..." - Quote by Thomas Sowell

“The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.”

“I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.”

“You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.”

“There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.”

“Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.”

“There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.”

“The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.”

“Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.”

“The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk about his will, but to enquire about his power, the limits of that power, and the character of those limits.”