"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages."

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
 

In my latest National Post column I say government regulation of Facebook would actually make a bad situation worse, that it's censorship, and that self-control beats state control.

"A fish stinks first from the head."

Adage about leadership, widely quoted and attributed.

The book "A Right to Arms", companion volume to our 2016 documentary on Canadians' historic right to self-defence, is now available through my online store. Click here to order a copy.

In my latest Looniepolitics column I ask how we could so quickly have discarded the hard-won lessons of the 1990s about the dangers of government debt and deficits.

"You know, there is one thing you can trust everybody to do. You can trust everybody to put his interest above yours."

Armen Alchain, quoted by Milton Friedman