To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.

Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.