In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.

Liberalism teaches those who have fallen behind in the economic scramble to blame others for their failure. This attitude stimulates juices of resentment and deprives its holders of the power to change their condition.

I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have been not only the key to much of the knowledge I have acquired, but also have given me a direction within my profession. The best thing about the library is that it is available not only to me, but to everyone. It does not discriminate.

The left's inability to understand the most basic economic fact - that people need an incentive to produce - has caused the unnecessary deaths of tens of millions of people - mostly poor - in the last 75 years. But thanks to a politically corrupted media and educational system, their pigheaded pursuit of socialist fantasies goes on.