Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.

Perserverance. . .that's been the story of my family.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.