Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.

It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.

Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.

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

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

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