We can only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdoch, O Magazine, February 2004

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body. Henry David Thoreau, O Magazine, May 2004

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its...

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. Gerald R. Ford, on becoming President,...

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to...

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. Franklin D....

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of...

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. Ralph...

In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards....