Thomas Sowell quote: As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after ...

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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