The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world

Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.

I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would say that America was, all things considered, a better, i.e., more moral, society than Soviet society. He said he would not.

Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps?

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right

In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.