The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

It's great to be with William Buckley, because you don't have to think. He takes a position and you automatically take the opposite one and you know you're right.

The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.