[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.

If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.

The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.