As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents.

The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.