I find myself surrounded by teenagers with body-piercing and exposed navels, gabbing on cell phones and listening to hip-hop. Maybe I’m missing something here. But I just don’t feel the least bit threatened by immigrants.

Most Americans aren’t the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

In one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offering remedial English in college

If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government...

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission

By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He...

If the welfare state is here to welcome them, the solution is to get rid of it, as should have been done long ago. Overpopulation is a problem for socialist systems, not for free societies....

When your child is a little older, you can teach him about our tax system in a way that is easy to grasp. Offer him, say, $10 to mow the lawn. When he has mowed...

War is just one more big government program.

Need’ now means wanting someone else’s money. ‘Greed’ means wanting to keep your own. ‘Compassion’ is when a politician arranges the transfer.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire

we,” like football fans talking about the home team.

Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money – only for wanting to keep your own money

The measure of the state’s success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

After tens of millions of [abortion] ‘procedures,’ has America lost anything? Another Edison, perhaps? A Gershwin? A Babe Ruth? A Duke Ellington? ‘¦ As it is, we will never know what abortion has cost us...

War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections