The unicorn is a mythical beast.
Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.
Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.
Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.
To centralize power in the name of freedom is akin to putting a crime syndicate in charge of rooting out corruption. It is the normal state of politics that the more centralized it is, the more damage it does. Fast-track authority [for government-to-government trade agreements] centralizes power and is therefore part of the problem.
Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.
In education, it is said that the state must impose schooling on all children, else the parents and communities will neglect it. Only the state can make sure that no child is left behind. The only question is the means: will we use the union and bureaucracies favored by the left, or the market incentives and vouchers favored by the right. I don't want to get into a debate about which means is better, but only to draw attention to the reality that these are both forms of planning that compromise the freedom of families to manage their own affairs.
George Harrison is one of the sweetest, kindest and most considerate men I know.
Five parts of my brain contain alien power, whatever I do or say cannot be denied on the intergalactic highway of existence.
Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.
There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.