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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

There are no more liberals Theyve all been mugged.

All who hear are called. All who are called are able.

Greed applied is prosperity realized". ~R. Alan Woods [2006]

I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.

You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.

I love you because you’re the only person I want to make love to without any conditions and—and I love that you need me.

Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling.

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.