The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?
Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.
We’ve come full circle but the best remains the heart of the city, the greatest center of the greatest city, our Acropolis, where our Christmas tree is lighted.
If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.
What is not discussed, will not be advanced.
In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn’t have done greater damage than some of what we see today.
The Lord looks after drunks and Americans.
The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.
Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.
The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, ‘Why wasn’t I consulted?’
The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
Secrecy is for losers.
The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but a reasonable forecast would be that Africa in particular had a century of border wars ahead of it.
The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.
Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.
The status quo is working.