The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and beliefs. Most emphatically, it….

The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children….

The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically at odds with ….

It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle..

We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a tr….

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous..

When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndr….

People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned - it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned - and the only way to earn anything is to ac….

What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. ….

Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks ….

It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed Europea….

Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor..

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness….

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought..

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government..