The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail' is simply another set of loft words to justify continued expansion of government spending. So are words like 'investment in education' or 'investment' in any number of other things, which serves the same political purpose.

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.