“Never before in our country’s history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged – and yet so empty.”

The story of Detroit’s bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment.

Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.

Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness.

Wait, Wikipedia isn’t working? Why hasn’t someone invented a paper version of it? A set of books organized alphabetically by topic?

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America’s global enemies sense a failure of will.

Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren’t about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?

Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

Too many Americans now believe that the checks they receive every month from the unemployment office – like the checks they get from the welfare office, from Medicare, from Social Security – are inalienable rights. They are not.

Promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.

Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It’s a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It’s the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

The bottom line is this: Miers is a disappointing pick.

Look, I’m a conservative, I’m a very conservative guy, and – and the Trump campaign is making your job over at NBC really, really, really easy in terms of going after conservatives and Republicans if he’s the standard bearer for conservatism.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.

A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!

Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or generations later.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

Things which matter cost money, and we’ve got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.