Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting your own rights in jeopardy - quite aside from undermining any moral basis for respecting anybody's rights. You are opening the floodgates to arbitrary power. And once you open the floodgates, you can't tell the water where to go.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

People who believe in 'universal health care' show remarkably little interest - usually none - in finding out what that phrase turns out to mean in practice, in those countries where it already exists, such as Britain, Sweden or Canada. For one thing, 'universal health care' in these countries means months of waiting for surgery that Americans get in a matter of weeks or even days.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.