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

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 achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

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 trap.

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

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 are to be above average.

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

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