The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results.

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.

When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.