The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.

But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .

Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.

[Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.

The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it would rather destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides.

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.