To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.

If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.