Occupation: Academic Birth: May 27, 1931 Death: March 2, 2012
There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want..
Window-breaking does not necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populat….
Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition..
One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing..
A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism..
Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character..
I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care.
The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to be called neoconservatism. Many ... , my….
A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes ….
I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom..
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, suc….
Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything abo….
There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now..
I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership wi….