"Politics is the relationship between the individual and the State. And it is this relationship we humans have been struggling to get right for thousands of years. We've tried everything -- kingdoms, empires, left-wing dictatorships, right-wing dictatorships, socialist models, models based on religion, and all sorts of democracies and republics.

When our country's constitution went into effect in 1788, the U.S. established a relationship between the individual and the State that was unique in history: the individual was in charge, the State would serve the individual, and there would be an arm's-length distance between the two. It is this unique relationship that propelled the U.S. into becoming the strongest, richest, freest, and most opportunity-oriented country the world has ever known."

-Herbert E. Meyer

"20% of life is what happens to you ...80% is how you respond."
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"The only “purpose” of law is to enable us all to pursue our individual purposes in peace."
-F.A. Hayek

"An economy is really nothing more than people participating in an unfathomably complex spontaneous network of exchanges aimed at improving their material circumstances. It can't even be diagrammed, much less planned. And any attempt at it will come to grief."
-John Stossel

"Free market capitalism is relatively new in human history. Prior to the rise of capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving one's fellow man.

Free market capitalism has other enemies -- mostly among the intellectual elite and political tyrants. These are people who believe that they have superior wisdom to the masses and that God has ordained them to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Of course, they have what they consider to be good reasons for restricting liberty, but every tyrant who has ever lived has had what he considered good reason for restricting liberty. They want to replace the market with economic planning and regulation."

-Walter Williams