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

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

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

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

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

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