Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it..

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures..

Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To th….

I like that lady - Sarah Palin. She's great. I like the cut of her jib..

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell..

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values..

This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brav….

If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculia….

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is ….

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete..

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy..

At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructi….

There are no inevitabilities in history.

His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or even interest ….

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family..

My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things are bad". It is t….

The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popul….

If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativi….

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules..

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth..

Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down..