All the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress of civilization and bring destruction and disaster wherever it goes.

To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.

American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.

What the American worker needs is more of what WalMart offers and less of what the government offers.

The fact is that the New Deal did not work. It prolonged what might have been a troubling two-year downturn into a horrifying blow to world prosperity that ended up in a war that killed countless millions. It was one of the greatest acts of wreckage in world history.