Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.

For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.