I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover either for grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much-cherished aspect of academic freedom.