“What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.”

Written with courage and passion, this is a book whose often counterintuitive clarity shakes entombed assumptions like an earthquake.

Whether you end up convinced or not, you will never think about American national security the same way ever again.

The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry bar works on a tightly sealed box.

Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency,

There’s always one more way to do things and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.

The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.

Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.

Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today….