“They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer – not an easy answer – but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.”
Ronald Reagan “A Time for Choosing” (a.k.a. “The Speech”) October 27, 1964
“history: a hill or high point of vantage from which men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News June 18, 1932, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #7 (June 2003)
In my latest National Post column I say it’s absurd and ghastly for the major parties each to rail at the other for wanting to tax without spending, as if there were no connection between high program spending and high taxes.
“Free markets must be defended on moral grounds. We must convince our fellow man there cannot be personal liberty in the absence of free markets, respect for private property rights and rule of law. Even if free markets were not superior wealth producers, the morality of the market would make them the superior alternative.”
Walter E. Williams, “Foreword” to Friedrich Hayek The Road to Serfdom [Readers’ Digest condensed edition] with The Intellectuals and Socialism