The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.

A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

They [Theodore White and Lou Harris] took turns weeping, and finally concluded that Rockefeller got the votes of everyone in California who is a Negro, a Jew, a Mexican, and a college graduate, while Goldwater got the votes of every millionaire. Which certainly makes California the land of opportunity.

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.