Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn't really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it, and doesn't just talk about it, he wants to have the right amount of pollution. We can't really afford to eliminate it - not without abandoning all the benefits of technology that we not only enjoy but on which we depend.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

As a nation, we have been responsible for the murder of literally hundreds of thousands of people at home and abroad by fighting a war that should never have been started and can be won, if at all, only by converting the United States into a police state.

Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today's disadvantaged to become tomorrow's privileged and, in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a fuller and richer life.

The euro is good for Europe. But only if there is flexibility all around.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative