Like gun laws, spy laws, courtesy of the Surveillance State, oppress only law-abiding, harmless individuals. - Ilana Mercer

Once illiberal, unassimilable people gain 'numeric superiority,' they will turn their population advantage into political advantage, using the host population's liberalism against it.

In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

The voluntary free market is a sacred extension of life itself. The free market—it has not been unfettered for a very long time—is really a spontaneously synchronized order comprising trillions upon trillions of voluntary acts that individuals perform in order to make a living. Introduce government force and coercion into this rhythm and you get life-threatening arrhythmia. Under increasing state control, this marketplace - this magic, organic agora - starts to splutter, and people suffer.