Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.

I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.