Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.

Worry not so much about other peoples morals but more about your own.

All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.

You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.

Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.