The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going!

Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.

Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes.

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

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

All adventure is now reactionary.