France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are saying. You make money by doing what other people want, not what you want.

High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.

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.

Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.

What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.

There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?