“Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain”

“We’ve built a society that values civil liberties even at the expense of social order.”

“In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure. But the libertarians give primacy to an abstract liberty. Conservatives, knowing that "liberty inheres in some sensible object," are aware that true freedom can be found only within the framework of a social order, such as the constitutional order of these United States. In exalting an absolute and indefinable "liberty" at the expense of order, the libertarians imperil the very freedoms they praise.”

“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”

“Social media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the system.”

“...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.”