Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new ones; the old … - Irving Kristol

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

[T]hough affluence is a good thing, and the spirit of compassionate reform is a good thing, in the end a nation survives only to the extent that the spirit of self-discipline and self-sacrifice is strong and vital.

[Conservatism:] Our revolutionary message … is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity and political participation.