America's greatness is due in no small measure to our system of government, in which power and authority are deliberately divided. The separation of powers is not a mere "technicality." It is the centerpiece of our Constitution. Our freedoms depend upon it in the future, just as they have in the past.
Richard Allen EpsteinThe New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.
Richard Allen EpsteinThe pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.
Richard Allen EpsteinFeminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.
Richard Allen EpsteinIf I have a right to a job, education, health care or a house, then I must be able to specify the person or persons who owe me any or all of these things.
Richard Allen EpsteinAt bottom are only two pure forms of legislation - productive and redistributive.
Richard Allen EpsteinWhen you are young in this world, you believe that the class of deductive truths about social matters is larger than it turns out to be. [...] I have discovered, to my infinite regret, that most of the serious debates over the basic principles of any political order have an irreducible empirical content.
Richard Allen Epstein