Top 15 Dennis Prager Quotes

Affluence + secularism = cowardice. Affluence + boredom = Leftism.

Women are used by feminists; blacks are used by Democrats; workers are used by Communists.

Anti-Zionism is not criticism of Israel. It is a hatred of Israel — a hatred greater than that of any other country and a delegitimization of Zionism, the movement to reestablish the Jewish national home. Imagine someone who argued that the establishment of the Italian state — Italy — was illegitimate and who hated Italy more than any other country in the world yet claimed that he was in no way anti-Italian, as he had Italian friends and loved Italian culture. No one would believe such an absurdity.

Truth is a liberal value, and it is a conservative value, but it is not a leftist value.

Most Americans no longer know what America stands for. For them, America has become just another country, a place located between Canada and Mexico. But America was founded to be an idea, not another country.

The majority of Republicans are not conservative.

I will not end on a happy note, because there isn't one. But neither do I despair. One doesn't fight only when one is optimistic. One fights because it is the right thing to do and because America remains, as Lincoln said, 'the last best hope of earth.'

The ideas that America should be a 'melting pot' or that all Americans should identify as American are now unutterable in educated company. Indeed, many college campuses do not have an American flag on their campus because some students regard it as 'offensive' — representing imperialism and capitalism.

The United States of America fought a horrific civil war that ended slavery. Yes, slavery was the reason for the Civil War.

[T]he further left one goes, the more negative the assessment of today's America and the America of the past.

Conservatives view America as President Abraham Lincoln viewed it; as the 'Last Best Hope of Earth.'

Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, the document that articulated the principle of human rights endowed by the Creator, thereby ultimately ensuring the end of slavery, and led to the establishment of the country that has served as the beacon of hope for people of every race and ethnicity.

American values, or Americanism, refers to what I call the "American Trinity": "Liberty," "In God We Trust," and "E Pluribus Unum" ("Out of Many, One"), the three values that appear on all American coins.

Of all the world's evils, child abuse may rank as the greatest.

[A] child smacking an adult across the face is not funny. It is, in fact, one of the last things society should tolerate.