Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

Activity and creativity almost always flow to the least regulated arena.

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

When capitalists are thwarted, deflected, or dispossessed, the generals and politicians,... and socialist intellectuals, are always amazed at how quickly the great physical means of production - the contested tokens of wealth and resources of nature - dissolve into so much scrap, ruined concrete, snarled wire, and wilderness.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.