A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

But who is ever fair in an argument?

This life is YOURS. Only YOU can live your life to the FULLEST. So OWN it!

Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.

Trust me, I'm a really nice guy.

The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.

A neighbor is a far better and cheaper alternative to government services.

Startups are based in faith, and the ones that succeed have no fear.

Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

The character, as written on the page, is just a blueprint for a human being.

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.