The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany

Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage.

We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.