When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
Those who cry out that the government should ‘do something’ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
If you have a right to respect, that means other people don’t have a right to their own opinions.
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.
You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization – including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain – without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.
Capitalism is not an ‘ism.’ It is closer to being the opposite of an ‘ism,’ because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.
There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to “empathy”.
The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn’t work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.
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.
Envy is always referred to by its political alias, ’social justice.
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: ‘But what would you replace it with?’ When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.
There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.
Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered.
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.