Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

Intellect is not wisdom.

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a stolen gun faster than you can get your car washed.' He also points out that many criminals prefer guns gotten illegally, since they will be harder to trace.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.