Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state.

I have always seen the Clinton Foundation - yes, they do a lot of charitable good works. But by my lights, the charitable good works were a cost center like the electric bill. The reason why the foundation exists wasn't to do good work. It was to serve as sort of a place to park lugubrious sycophants like Sidney Blumenthal and other henchman, a place to serve as a super PAC, a place park her campaign while they were a government in exile

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

[Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to make people do and be what liberals want. And that makes all the difference in the world.

A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.

[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.

I like vengeance as much as the next guy, if the next guy likes vengeance a whole lot.