A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores... Capitalism is a government program.

Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

As Aristotle said, happiness is not a condition that is produced or stands on its own; rather, it is a frame of mind that accompanies an activity. But another frame of mind comes first. It is a steely determination to do well.

It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.