The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that [government] can change a culture and save it from itself.
-Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Just as youth is wasted in the young, history is wasted on historians.  It ought to be the exclusive property of novelists.
 -Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:  it goes on.
-Robert Frost