Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables. Popular opinion is what they say to callers from polling organizations. — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables. Popular opinion… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share
Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them. — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share
The young women who attract so much attention never change: They are all stupid. They have at best only the crudest notions of their… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share
Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him. — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share
The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it. — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share
“The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.” — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share
Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty. — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share
Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine? — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share
Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share
[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share
One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery. — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share
