The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians.

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.

Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and money talks with an eloquence Shakespeare could only envy. Ignorant people don't understand The Federalist Papers, but they understand government checks with their names on them.

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