A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

Prayer is the companion of Bible study.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.

Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

A lot of the hallmark behaviors of autism - flat affect, stimming, not looking someone in the eye - could very easily be misinterpreted as signs of guilt.

No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time.

Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.