I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory.

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

For the first time in fifteen years, he felt a mother's love again.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Be willing to move forward and find out what happens next.

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

God doesn't want to change the world without you.