“He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.”

“There is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.”

“Virtue can only be freely pursued through struggle and hard work. In pursuing virtue, we work to overcome our weak will …, the penchant to pursue short-term pleasure such as idleness over real, long-term happiness.”

“In matters of morality, the free market functions like an amplifier. By placing more wealth and resources at our disposal, it tends to boost and accentuate whatever character tendencies we already possess.”

“Modern liberal political and economic forms are derivative, not sui generis, and certainly not world-creating. The liberal respect for the individual and his rights emerges out of Christianity.”

“The true face of anti-liberalism is a postmodern Nietzsche in which ‘freedom’ amounts to expressive self-assertion. The future of liberal modernity and its emphasis on the socially productive potential of human freedom, including market freedom, is actually tied to Christianity rather than hostile to it.”