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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him. — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it. — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
“The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.” — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty. — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery. — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
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