People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out all their good intentions, in all kinds of economic and political systems. Capitalism makes them pay a price for their failures, while socialism, feudalism, fascism and other systems enable personal failures, especially by those at the top, to be ignored.

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged by how good it makes its crusaders feel.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.