I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word ‘fair’ in connection with income tax policies.
The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.
One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.
Presley brought an excitement to singing, in part because rock and roll was greeted as his invention, but for other reasons not so widely reflected on: Elvis Presley had the most beautiful singing voice of any human being on earth.
What was wrong with communism wasn’t aberrant leadership, it was communism.
France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?
Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.
No one since the Garden of Eden – which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office – has imputed to politicians great purity of motive.
As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.
Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
Nobody who’s ever been to Gulag is a pacifist.
A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.
Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.
A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom.
I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, “Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?” I couldn’t think of anyone.
They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that’s what happened.
Why should any country continue, forever, to be “great”?