No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.

Man as a pure animal does not exist.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Capitalism is not an economic system but a world outlook or rather a part of a whole world outlook.

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do.

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.

You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

I've always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they'd just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don't need America or someone else to help.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to the preservation of religion as a vital force in America.