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

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

Using for a noble purpose is still using.

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

I-uh-have the utmost respect for Yamamoto-san. If it had not been for him, there would be no naval aviation. However-the most brilliant man can occasionally make a mistake.

Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.

There's no smoke without mud being flung around.

Not so easy, Mr Lennon. Even if you try.

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

I had that thing of wanting to prove I was a tough kid.

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.