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

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.

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

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

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

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.

You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.