Paul Johnson

There are no inevitabilities in history

— Paul Johnson

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

— Paul Johnson

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

— Paul Johnson

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

— Paul Johnson

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

— Paul Johnson

I like that lady - Sarah Palin. She's great. I like the cut of her jib.

— Paul Johnson

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.

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Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

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Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

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If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide…

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Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

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For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

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The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and…

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You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

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As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

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As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents.

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“Its spirit was animated by the same love of representative government and respect for the rule of law that had produced England’s…

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“Lincoln could easily have used the excuse of Seward’s incapacity to avoid consulting him at all. But that was not his way.…

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Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over…

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Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty…

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“When I surrender to prolonged entreaties to accept an offer, repeated over and over again, I do so for the sake of…

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“While under the tsars the average number of executions was only seventeen, by 1918 the Cheka was killing an average of a…

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Those who buy in to global warming wish to drastically curb human economic and industrial activities, regardless of the consequences for people,…

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Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best…

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“With the decline of clerical power in the eighteenth century, a new kind of mentor emerged to fill the vacuum and capture…

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My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things…

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“Virtue is the product of good government. ‘Vices belong less to man, than to man badly governed.’ The political process, and the…

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“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among…

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In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of…

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“His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or…

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“Brecht’s ‘basic laxity’ was one reason why, apart from his satellites and those tied to him by party bonds, he was generally…

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“How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Constantine] in it's theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain?…

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“This was all very well: Columbanus's success indicates the appeal of his mission. But his activities, for the first time, brought the…

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“Men are excessively ruthless and cruel not as a rule out of malice but from outraged righteousness. How much more is this…

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“Much of Sartre’s time in the 1960s was spent travelling in China and the Third World, a term invented by the geographer…

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“Marx wrote about finance and industry all his life but he only knew two people connected with financial and industrial processes. One…

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“Though Rousseau writes about the General Will in terms of liberty, it is essentially an authoritarian instrument, an early adumbration of Lenin’s…

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“The whole stress of Washington’s presidency, underlined by his farewell, was on the absolute necessity to obey the Constitution. As he said…

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“Julian recognized that the strength of the orthodox Church rested to a great extent on the imperial discrimination in its favour. According…

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“If Paul brought the first generation of Christians the useful skills of a trained theologian, Origen was the first great philosopher to…

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