Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars.

The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of people.

The real minimum wage is zero.

The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that do not give them that.

What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.