"People have a vested interest in promoting..." - Quote by Thomas Sowell

“Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.”

“Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.”

“The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.”

“Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk... If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold.”

“I know no diplomacy save that of truth.”

“Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.”

“We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.”

“We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.”

“It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.”