What Yells Out At The Us Public

We Have Got To Accept Big Government For The Duration-for Neither An Offensive Nor A Defensive War Can Be Waged, Given Our Present Government Skills, Except Through The Instrument Of A Totalitarian Bureaucracy Within Our Shores. … And If They Deem Soviet Power A Menace To Our Freedom (as I Happen To), They Will Have To Support Large Armies And Air Forces, Atomic Energy, Central Intelligence, War Production Boards, And The Attendant Centralization Of Power In Washington-even With Truman At The Reins Of It All.

One Must Bear In Mind That The Expansion Of Federal Activity Is A Form Of Eating For Politicians.

Everyone Detected With Aids Should Be Tattooed In The Upper Forearm, To Protect Common Needle Users, And On The Buttock, To Prevent The Victimization Of Other Homosexuals.

Conservatism Is The Tacit Acknowledgement That All That Is Finally Important In Human Experience Is Behind Us; That The Crucial Explorations Have Been Undertaken, And That It Is Given To Man To Know What Are The Great Truths That Emerged From Them.

A Conservative Is Someone Who Stands Athwart History, Yelling Stop, At A Time When No One Is Inclined To Do So, Or To Have Much Patience With Those Who So Urge It.