Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government.

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.

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

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

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.