You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis.

All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

History is the memory of a nation

People who thing that they are getting something for nothing, by having government provide what they would otherwise have to buy in the private market, are not only kidding themselves by ignoring the taxes that government has to take from them in order to give them the appearance of something for nothing.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.