No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.

The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.

It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.

After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.