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.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

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.

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

The status quo is working.

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.