They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm.

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

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

Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

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.

Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.