.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

Do you think it's really the Boogeyman that killed Brent? You think it's back?""I sincerely hope not.""When you say things like that, I start to cry a little on the inside.

The beauty of agile comes in with its incremental nature and use of empiricism to focus on three “I”s - Interaction, Iteration, and Improvement.

Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s the body’s physical response to imminent harm. It is the mind’s way of telling us to move our hand off the stove or let go of the broken glass.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.

You had my heart, and I yours; a heart for a heart, good fortune for good fortune.

I like an otter. I like a sea lion. I like a walrus. That's my favorite version of a sea creature.

I am fine. I feel really good. I am playing without any sort of fitness problems.

The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.