The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny probably worse, because more irresponsible, than that of the State. The trouble with competitions is that somebody wins them. Professor Hayek denies that free capitalism necessarily leads to monopoly, but in practice that is where it has led, and since the vast majority of people would far rather have State regimentation than slumps and unemployment, the drift towards collectivism is bound to continue if popular opinion has any say in the matter.

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

For the future. For the unborn.