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 real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.

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.

We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

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

Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.