The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.