The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the idea of liberty should also reveal new forms of beauty in the world, astonishing evidence of order without dictate, lovely examples of innovation without planning, and other magical things. Surely these deserve some attention too.

We really don’t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.