Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 11 of Thomas Sowell’s “Introduction” to Compassion Versus Guilt, a 1987 collection of some of his popular essays:

Another political concept often heard in our times is “solution.” Early in these essays, I argue that there are no real solutions in politics – only trade-offs. That theme also recurs in the essays that follow, and extends to foreign policy as well as domestic issues, to economics as well as law, to educational issues no less than to issues of race and sex.