The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state..

If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men believe in the lies of religion since ….

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence..

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

...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of n….

Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new ones; the old ….

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

I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the i….

Joining a radical movement when one is young is very much like falling in love when one is young. The girl may turn out to be rotten, but the the exp….

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want..

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

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

As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned and centrally administere….

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges..

Senator McGovern is very sincere when he says that he will try to cut the military budget by 30%. And this is to drive a knife in the heart of Israel….

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality..

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

If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't acc….

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..

Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to liv….

You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create so….