"Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize."

"The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left."

"A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today."

"The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum."

"Appearances are often deceiving."

"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government."

"We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed."

"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."