Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.

Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.

History is the same story with different costumes.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity, than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation.

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.