The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.

Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.

Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.

Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'

The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources.

Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

We must persistently establish God’s truth and stand for it to the end

If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.

My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.

Sometimes, the advertising is better than the product. Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Everyone tries the thing and never buys it again.

I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.

The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.