The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.

Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in public spaces. Regarding the homeless, this is not merely for aesthetic reasons because the anesthetic is not merely unappealing. It presents a spectacle of disorder and decay that becomes a contagion.