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

[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

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.

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

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.

[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.

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