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.

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

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.

I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory.

The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic movie - but only if she is paid the minimum wage.

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