Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty..

The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it..

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are th….

[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his count….

Madison loathed Hamilton and loved Jefferson above all..

Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him..

The young women who attract so much attention never change: They are all stupid. They have at best only the crudest notions of their own power, and n….

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery..

Depression manifests itself in a lack of will..

Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?.

Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries..

Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables. Popular….

Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them..