In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which an ever higher proportion of your assets are annexed by the state as superlandlord. Big government is where nations go to die - not in Keynes' 'long run,' but sooner than you think.

But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .

When the family dies, the nation follows.

You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.