But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government

Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

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

During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.

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.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.