Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?

Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.

There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.

Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.

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.

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."