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“Contrast societies with such restricted sources of decision-making ability with a society in which a farm boy who walked eight miles to Detroit to look for a job could end up creating the Ford Motor Company and changing the face of America with mass-produced automobiles—or a society in which a couple of young bicycle mechanics could invent the airplane and change the whole world. Neither a lack of pedigree, nor a lack of academic degrees, nor even a lack of money could stop ideas that worked, for investment money is always looking for a winner to back and cash in on.”
― Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

“Vladimir Lenin made it clear that the true goal of socialism is communism. He would know better than most of us.”
― Kathy Barnette, Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America

“... much of the Democrat party is set on telling us which car to drive, the temperature our thermostats should be set on and whether or not we should be allowed to eat meat.”
― Kathy Barnette, Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America

“But truth is like a thrashing-machine; tender sensibilities must keep out of the way.”
― Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man