Thomas Sowell Quotes

Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's only and always about expanding government power and control over you.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

… the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.

Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the uninsured, and it never has been about that. It's about statism. It's about expanding the government. It's about control over the population. It is about everything but health care.

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things.

When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and for government to gain ground.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man.

The rich don’t need to rely on government … -- they can buy … things for themselves. In the process, they become more distant from ordinary people, losing whatever empathy they may have once had. They also worry about strong government: one that could use its powers to … take some of their wealth, and invest it for the common good.

Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'

In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is.

The seeds of today's runaway government were planted when it was decided that government should help those who can't help themselves. From that modest, compassionate beginning to today's out-of-control mega-state, there's a straight, unbroken line. Once the door was open, once it was settled that the government should help some people at the expense of others, there was no stopping it.

As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals.

The real problem is that "limited government" invariably leads to unlimited government. If history is to be any guide and current experience is to be any guide, we in the United States 200 years ago started out with the notion of limited government - virtually no government interference - and we now have a massive quasi-totalitarian government.

It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.

Government doesn't have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.

We create the government that screws you, and then you're supposed to thank us for protecting you from it.

The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities.

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.