Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It is the means for conquering poverty at the lowest rung of society, the basis on which children and the elderly are cared for, the foundation for the cultivation of arts and learning. Crush an economy and you crush civilization.

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.

Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It is the means for conquering poverty at the lowest rung of society, the basis on which children and the elderly are cared for, the foundation for the cultivation of arts and learning. Crush an economy and you crush civilization.

If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

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

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.

It is not caving in to the bees to stop poking a stick into their hive.