What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

Freedom is the silence of the law.

All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.

National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.

The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.