"Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric." ― Thomas Sowell Topic(s): Religion Tags: freedom More From Thomas Sowell "What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long." "As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking." "In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected." More In Religion "We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure."― Shirin Ebadi "Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values."― Allen Tate "Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ’s religion illuminates with His divine light."― Franz Liszt