I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

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.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.

A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.