Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations, like those inscribed in the Geneva Convention, you therefore deserve to be treated better, not worse, than those rules require.

There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.

I've just returned from my daughter's Halloween parade at grade school. She was supergirl - and she was perfect. And, even better, she still considers boys to be made of kryptonite.