Depression manifests itself in a lack of will.

- Richard Brookhiser

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

- Richard Brookhiser

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…

- Richard Brookhiser

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

- Richard Brookhiser

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

- Richard Brookhiser

Madison loathed Hamilton and loved Jefferson above all.

- Richard Brookhiser

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

- Richard Brookhiser

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

- Richard Brookhiser

[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…

- Richard Brookhiser