I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to be called neoconservatism. Many ... , myself included, disliked the term because we did not think we were conservative, neo or paleo. (I voted for John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey and worked in the latter's presidential campaign.) It would have been better if we had been called policy skeptics; that is, people who thought it was hard, though not impossible, to make useful and important changes in public policy.

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.