As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. - Thomas Sowell

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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

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About Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist and political commentator. He taught economics at Cornell University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and since 1980 at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he is currently Senior Fellow.

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