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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.