Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

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

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.

Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.

History is the memory of a nation

Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.