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.

There are no inevitabilities in history

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

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

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.

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

I like that lady - Sarah Palin. She's great. I like the cut of her jib.