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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Thomas Sowell

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Thomas Sowell
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: June 30
Economist
University Teacher
Gastonia
North Carolina
Much
Rhetoric
Agony
Cheap
Propaganda
Price
Cost
Blood
Relinquished
Freedom
Agonizing

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