The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.

You do not need proof for what people want to believe.

You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

Just as members of American teachers unions often send their own children to private schools, so unionized workers at government-run hospitals in Britain have insurance that allows them to go to private hospitals. In both cases, those on the inside realize how bad these institutions are, regardless of what they say to those on the outside.

The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of people.