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Boredom is the deadliest poison.
All adventure is now reactionary.
Industry is the enemy of melancholy
Why does baloney avoid the grinder?
Some of my instincts are reprehensible.
Conservatism is the politics of reality
If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going!
Not everything that is legal is reputable.
History is but the polemics of the victor.
Nobody who's ever been to Gulag is a pacifist.
I had much more fun criticizing than praising.
We love your adherence to democratic principles.
One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.
Why should any country continue, forever, to be "great"?
If only the left hated crime as much as they hated hate.
Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.
As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.
Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.
Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.
It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.
The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.
Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.
The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.
Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.
Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?
One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.
To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them
I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.
It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.