The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.

In Britain, everything is policed except crime.

Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general societal interest; he's got his, and if it's going to bankrupt the state a generation hence, well, as long as they can keep the checks coming till he's dead, it's fine by him.

In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.