Reagan's First Inaugural: "...In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem..."

Mises: "...Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living..."

Hayek: "...The [libertarian], of course, does not deny that there are some superior people -- he is not an egalitarian -- but he denies that anyone has authority to decide who these superior people are..."

Mises: "...Monetary calculation and cost accounting constitute the most important intellectual tool of the capitalist entrepreneur, and it was no one less than Goethe who pronounced the system of double-entry bookkeeping one of the finest inventions of the human mind..."

F.D. Roosevelt: "A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that is has not yet been tried."

Kingsley Amis: "If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing."