Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom security and the enjoyment of opportunity.
~ Jeane Kirkpatrick
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
