Irving Kristol

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Being frustrated is disagreeable but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

The really difficult moral issues arise not from a confrontation of good and evil but from a collision between two goods

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.