If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it’s quite conscious.
The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.
Maybe you are the “cool” generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.
This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it’s time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.
A lost trail always extends beyond the evidence, and even the trails we find are only fragments of the trails that lie beyond our comprehension.
If we are going to allow somebody to request a recount, the intent obviously is that you expect a recount to be included.
I don’t see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.
Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.
Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.
I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.
We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.
When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.
The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.
Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’