Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

The only time a bachelor's bed is made is when it's in the factory.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.