If You Don't Have 30 Years To

At 14 You Are Still In Most Respects A Dependent Youth, In Some Respects A Child. At 24 You Are An Adult. In Between, Extraordinary Turbulences Take Place.

There Is One Unmistakable Lesson In American History; A Community That Allows A Large Number Of Young Men To Grow Up In Broken Families, Dominated By Women, Never Acquiring Any Stable Relationship To Male Authority, Never Acquiring Any Set Of Rational Expectations About The Future - That Community Asks For And Gets Chaos.

The American Constitution Was Designed To Make It Hard To Have Too Much Government.

Am I Embarrassed To Speak For A Less Than Perfect Democracy? Not One Bit. Find Me A Better One. Do I Suppose There Are Societies Which Are Free Of Sin? No, I Don't. Do I Think Ours Is, On Balance, Incomparably The Most Hopeful Set Of Human Relations The World Has? Yes, I Do.

If You Don't Have 30 Years To Devote To Social Policy, Don't Get Involved.