A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights. - Thomas Sowell

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

Although Adam Smith is today often regarded as a “conservative” figure, he in fact attacked some of the dominant ideas and interests of his own times. Moreover, the idea of a spontaneously self-equilibrating system — the market economy — first developed by the Physiocrats and later made part of the tradition of classical economics by Adam Smith, represented a radically new departure, not only in analysis of social causation but also in seeing a reduced role for political, intellectual, or other elites as guides or controllers of the masses.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.