.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government.

I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory.

It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.