If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.

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

We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition.

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.

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.

One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.

[Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.