[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.

All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.

The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.