Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

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

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

...only liberal organizations are clearly designated [in the press] as "nonpatisan, nonprofit." Non-liberal research organizations are always identified as "right-wing" or "conservative."

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

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.