One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Conservatives can't claim to be "pro Israel" and then get offended by the term "Happy Holidays.”

If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways... and we all--can be "liberated." The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions--the vision--which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help