The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one’s own behavior.

People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect?

What matters to bureaucrats is not whether what they are doing makes sense but whether it fits the routine. It is both bothersome and dangerous to go beyond the routine because that means taking personal responsibility for the consequences. One of the main hallmarks of…

A $100 bill would buy less in 1998 than a $20 bill would buy in the 1960s. This means that anyone who kept his money in a safe over those years would have lost 80 percent of its value, because no safe can keep your money safe from politicians who control the printing presses.

Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, "social justice."