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

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….

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 ….

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

Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... Peop….

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 trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regar….

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

There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace..

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 you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship..

...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….

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place..

In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact that the Am….

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

Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena….

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

[Conservatism:] Our revolutionary message... is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will prom….

...only liberal organizations are clearly designated [in the press] as "nonpatisan, nonprofit." Non-liberal research organizations are always identif….

What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived..

The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic m….