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

What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.

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.

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.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

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.

The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.