“The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.”

It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.

In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.

The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time.

As I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart.

These difficult periods come and you have to accept that.

A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check. I fondled it for about five minutes and then sent it back. I told her I couldn’t accept money from strangers.

Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.