There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
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.
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.
Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
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.
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
