The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.

What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.

It is an extravagant gesture, ' she said, turning to the torpedo, 'which is just the sort of gesture I like.

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

I was raised to pretend.

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.

Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.

Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.