Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.

Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.

Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.