The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

Only foolish people are completely secure.

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.