The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.

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

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.

As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.

...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.