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

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

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

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.

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 the way human beings come to live satisfying lives.

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 syndrome.

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.