For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created