Thomas Sowell
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.