Conservatism aims to maintain in working order the loyalties of the community to perceived truths and also to those truths which in their judgment ha… - William F. Buckley Jr.

It is outrageous to live in a society whose laws tolerate sending young people to life in prison because they grew, or distributed, a dozen ounces of marijuana. I would hope that the good offices of your vital profession would mobilize at least to protest such excesses of wartime zeal, the legal equivalent of a My Lai massacre. And perhaps proceed to recommend the legalization of the sale of most drugs, except to minors.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

"How can one deduce the cause of "Hamlet" or "Saint Matthew's Passion"? What is the cause of inspiration? "