Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

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.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.

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.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

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