We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.