One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.

You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.

High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception?