No matter how deeply you distrust the government’s judgment, you are too trusting.
Even the continents drift.
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Freedom is the silence of the law.
The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work.
It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.
The cultivation – even celebration – of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today’s culture of complaint.
Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things – courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.
Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.
It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country – and indeed the world – has yet seen.
Sports is the toy department of life.
Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRS’s behavior “inappropriate. ” No, using the salad fork for the entree is inappropriate. Using the Internal Revenue Service for political purposes is a criminal offense.
Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.
Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.
Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
If you seek Hamilton’s monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton’s country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it – short-term pain for long-term gain.
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.