Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.

Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out all their good intentions, in all kinds of economic and political systems. Capitalism makes them pay a price for their failures, while socialism, feudalism, fascism and other systems enable personal failures, especially by those at the top, to be ignored.

How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.