Top 100 Quotes by Thomas Sowell

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

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

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.