One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.

During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a model -- all this at a time when literally millions of people were starving to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of the richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food.

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.

It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do what matters it doesnt matter what you do.

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.