Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.

It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.