The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

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.

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.

One ironic legacy of the Clinton administration is the rearming of the American citizenry. Each time Clinton and his friends in Congress threaten another round of anti-gun regulations, the American people respond by stocking up.

Americans are coming to their senses, and the libertarian theory of society and government is pointing the way. The times change, but the enduring principles that help us to interpret and understand the world do not. It remains true now, as then, as in the future, saecula saeculorum, that government provides neither an effective nor a moral means for solving any human problem.

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.

The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right.