I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.

In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.

History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.

Offering 'comprehensive' reform usually means years of arguing and horse-trading among pressure groups to get anything done. By the time all the special interests are appeased or bought off, the resulting elephantine legislation typically looks nothing like what was intended. In short, big-government medicine usually doesn't work on big-government sickness. If President Obama wants 'comprehensive' change, it would be better simply not to spend any more money we don't have.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

I'm kind of old-fashioned because I was born and live in the same house for six generations.

In the case of [Donald] Trump, he was able to tell people that elites live in gated communities, where they have walls around their home.