It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going to be confiscated.

An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws that they are sworn to uphold.

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks.

Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.

A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."