Carolina QuotesFreedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Thomas Sowell Carolinian
Source
Ch. 5 : Political Trade-Offs
- work
- Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996)
- year
- 1980
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“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished…” Thomas Sowell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-D649115337. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/d649115337
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