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.

Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.