Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.