Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with.

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

Coolidge and his treasury secretary Mellon loved new technology. Like JFK, C.C. divined that a new technology could lift the nation out of its doldrums; the only difference was that JFK's new technology was space travel, and Coolidge's travel by airplane.

Economics are part of our life. We try to treat them separately, like over there is the economy and here is history. Econ affects history and history often doesn't get it right if it doesn't respect econ.

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

In a way, Calvin Coolidge is better than Reagan. His tax rates were lower, and he cut budgets.

Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.