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

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

Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system…The central feature of the American constitutional system—the separation of powers—exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers.

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

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

One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution.