Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 71 of Thomas Sowell’s 1999 book, Barbarians Inside the Gates:

The automobile has been one of the great liberating forces of the twentieth century. It did more to reduce severe overcrowding, common in cities a century ago, than all the hand-wringing reformers put together. But, as the automobile enable people to spread out into the suburbs, to get some elbow room, the anointed began to wring their hands over what they now chose to call “urban sprawl.”