Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

We are... living in a free society without the faith that built that society - and without the conviction and dedication needed to sustain it... We still have the cathedral of freedom but how long will it last without the faith?

If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.