Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.

Depression manifests itself in a lack of will.

The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.

Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?

Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty.

[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.

Madison loathed Hamilton and loved Jefferson above all.

Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.

Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

If I'm going to eat fast food, I'm going to McDonald's. I don't need to pretend.

How can I study from below, that which is above?

I felt like I was in charge.

The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines.

We've been insufferable friends for years.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

Because of Bethlehem, I have a friend in heaven.

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.