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

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

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

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

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it.

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.