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

There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work.

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

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

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

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