In Britain, everything is policed except crime.

Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you can never get out of the store.

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.

Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

Encouragement is the strength of the soul.

Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.

Do I pass, Dr. Saunders?

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.