If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

Quote by George F Will

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This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant

Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old...

Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old...

Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football...

Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football...

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

Politicians employ speech writers as ventriloquists.

Politicians employ speech writers as ventriloquists.

Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football...

Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football...

If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. Instead, read...

If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. Instead, read...

Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years...

Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years...

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson,...

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson,...

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues...

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues...

American politics as you know . . . is very often a matter of capture...

American politics as you know . . . is very often a matter of capture...

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity...

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity...

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

This is what bipartisanship looks like; constant rubbish from both sides of the aisle.

This is what bipartisanship looks like; constant rubbish from both sides of the aisle.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the...

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the...

You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst...

You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst...

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only...

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only...

PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness...

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness...

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.