Sports is the toy department of life.

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

Promoting dependency is the Democratic Party's vocation. It knows that almost all entitlements are forever, and those that are not -- e.g., the lifetime eligibility for welfare, repealed in 1996 -- are not for the middle class.

Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.

Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

The phrase domestic cat is an oxymoron.

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

Money is time made tangible -- the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.

The reformers' preferred metaphor is leveling the playing field. They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.

One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.