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

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.

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 too little from those at the top.

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.

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

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

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