The Neoconservative Persuasion |
Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want |
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. |
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals |
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals |
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 |
The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods |
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. |