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.

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

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.

The friend is a human EdenBut Eden is so easily lostWhen you choose, choose wiselyBefore you share, count the cost

Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?

Tho' you're tired and weary, still journey on, Till you come to your happy abode, Where all the love you've been dreaming of, Will be there at the end of the road.

The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we’re listening.

I thought if only we could go onand meet again, shy as strangers.

If you live by the grace of God and you constantly recognise His grace in your life, then your weakness turns into strength

You had no faith to lose and you know it.

There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.

What we don't include is as important as what we do include.

I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.