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

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

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

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

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

The most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

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

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.

It was a new kind of class war
the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.

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

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

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