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.

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.

If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.

You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.