'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up the black family. Today, just slightly over 30 percent of black kids live in two-parent families. Historically, from the 1870s on. . . 75-90 percent of black kids lived in two-parent families.

Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.