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.

The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but a reasonable forecast would be that Africa in particular had a century of border wars ahead of it.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

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

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 American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

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