Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.