A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

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.

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

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.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

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

If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men believe in the lies of religion since they cannot do without them, and let then a handful of sages, who know the truth and can live with it, keep it among themselves. Men are then divided into the wise and the foolish, the philosophers and the common men, and atheism becomes a guarded, esoteric doctrine - for if the illusions of religion were to be discredited, there is no telling with what madness men would be seized, with what uncontrollable anguish.