There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
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.
Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions – and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in business. Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large.
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.