If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage.

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

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned and centrally administered economy, so popular in the 1930s and early 1940s, has been discredited.