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!’
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.