Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people will trade their surpluses to others for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.

The political class can't imagine a decentralized world where good things happen...without them. But in the real world, that's exactly how good things happen, and how jobs are created. When government sets simple rules that everyone understands and then gets out of the way, free people create jobs.

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.