Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.

The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it.

Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that I was the only 'religious nut' - his term for a believer - in his stable of regular reviewers.

Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.

Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'

If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.