The role of government in a nation’s prosperity is important but limited.

Railways not only brought fresh, healthy food to the urban poor, they improved the conditions of working animals.

It is not politicians and their policies that create wealth, but the hard work and ingenuity of ordinary people.

Intellectual learning is to be respected, but it should never be confused with good character.

Anti-Christian governments don’t make us free, they just impose their own, illiberal morality.

The blessing of trade free from political interference was one of most important insights in British, indeed world history.