No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

Your mission or purpose is like a magnet that keeps you moving is a well established direction

Towards these weeks of rain I give effusive praise. Let me always be reminded that there is time for change.

....Love is not only wired, but elusive too.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general.

You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.

Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.

One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace.