Professor Galbraith is horrified by the number of Americans who have bought cars with tail fins on them, and I am horrified by the number of Americans who take seriously the proposals of Mr. Galbraith.
Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.
Boredom is the deadliest poison.
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
Government can’t do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.
Industry is the enemy of melancholy.
One doesn’t read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.
Socialize the individual’s surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness...
Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You’d get a solemn and contrite, Yes.
Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.
Kennedy after all has lots of glamour – Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.
Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.
I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.
A society is not ‘free’ merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.
Conservatism is the politics of reality.
If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going!
Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn’t consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?
He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.