'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.