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

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

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

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.

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

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

A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage.