The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

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

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.

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.

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.

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.

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