The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and lik….

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….

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

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

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

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..

There are no inevitabilities in history.

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

It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smo….

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

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….

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality..

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

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless..

It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity..

Hell is being trapped in a night-club with the'beautiful people'and forced to live in a'luxury penthouse flat'..

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. A young writer mu….

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman..

In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to a….

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them..