America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many of them there are.

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.