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 …

- Charles A. Murray

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

- Charles A. Murray

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…

- Charles A. Murray

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…

- Charles A. Murray

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 …

- Charles A. Murray

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

- Charles A. Murray

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…

- Charles A. Murray

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

- Charles A. Murray

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…

- Charles A. Murray