… is from page 128 of Thomas Sowell’s 2023 book, Social Justice Fallacies:
But we cannot just keep surrendering more and more of our freedoms to politicians, bureaucrats and judges – who are what elected governments basically consist of – in exchange for plausible-sounding rhetoric that we do not bother to subject to the test of facts.


But we cannot just keep surrendering more and more of our freedoms to politicians, bureaucrats and judges – who are what elected governments basically consist of – in exchange for plausible-sounding rhetoric that we do not bother to subject to the test of facts.
