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.

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

Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead promotes the overutilization of all resources, ending in bankruptcy.

Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing.

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.

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

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