The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.