The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

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

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.

In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact that the American Revolution was successful--realizing the purposes of the revolutionaries and establishing a durable political regime--while the French Revolution was a resounding failure, devouring its own children and leading to an imperial despotism, followed by an eventual restoration of the monarchy.

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.