“The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.”

“That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.”

“The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.”

“Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'être of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas could not be more explicit.”

“The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise.”

“Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.”

“[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.”