Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.

And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that’s tyranny.

The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.

This is a very sick man, this Obama.

The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations and price hikes.

The only dynasty I like is the Duck Dynasty.

The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure.

America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy...

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

Every effort must be made to increase forfeiture income.

The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.

"When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind." Persons have vision only when they have a dream that drives them on.

Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

If a girl doesn't have a sense of humor, then what would you have to talk about?

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.