I enjoy reading Thomas Sowell's columns each week in our local newspaper, The Brunswick News. Mr. Sowell is a economist and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
In my opinion Thomas is a smart man, but who am I to make such an assessment--the recoginition that he receives from his peers bears this point out quite well.
His web site has a listing of his favorite quotations which I enjoyed reading. Here is my favorite:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
Who does it sound like he is talking about?
The liberal "do gooders" in our government, perhaps?
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