The Notes (51 page)

Scottish ballad, 158

SDS, 57

security, of individuals, 5

sedition, 85

self-control, 157

self-preservation, 74, 81

self-reliance, 105–6, 151, 156

Seneca, Lucius, 155, 172

Shaw, George Bernard, 43

sins, 214

slavery, 36, 58, 67, 69

Slichter, Sumner, 25

Smith, Adam, 149

Smith, Al, 145–46

Social Security, 243

socialism, 38, 39–40, 43, 45, 49, 51, 56, 77, 94, 97, 108, 133, 136, 177–78, 185

socialized medicine, 98

Socrates, 91

soldiers, 66–67, 71

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 137

Sophocles, 119

Sorensen, Theodore, 29

sovereignty, 9

Soviet Union, 49, 132, 134, 137, 199, 234–35

Sparta, 91

Spencer, Herbert, 105–6

Stalin, Joseph, 48–49

State, 20–21

States’ rights, 5, 9, 11

statistics, 189

Statue of Liberty, 46

Sternlieb, George, 103–4

strikes, by public employees, 89

students, 211

success, 216, 217, 218, 224

Sun-Tzu, 69

Supreme Court, U.S., 125

power of, 3

Talmud, 157

taxes, taxation, 6, 24–25, 81, 90, 102, 107, 109, 111, 183, 192, 219, 232, 233, 245, 251, 252, 256

equality of, 20, 104

and foreign aid, 131–32

reduction of, 17, 59, 184

and spending, 59

taxpayer, 233

Taylor, Elizabeth, 190

“Teacher” (Mollenhoff), 99

technology, 201, 252

teenagers, 262

television, 211, 212, 236

Texas, 248

theatre, 166–70

Thessalonians, Second Epistle to, 100

Thomas, Norman, 108, 184

thought, power of, 162

time, wasting of, 214

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 6, 36–37

Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, 92

trains, 221

treason, 85, 90

truth, 8, 79, 145, 150

tyranny, 44

Tytler, Alexander Fraser, 97

underdeveloped nation, 241

unions, 45–46

United Nations, 254

United States, as protector of small nations, 8

USSR, 137

utopia, 184

values, 86

verbosity, 153, 262

victory, 71

Vietnam War, 180–82

violence:

and government, 92

necessity of, 72

urban, 85

virtue, 15

virtues, 163, 167

Voltaire, 197

votes, 216

“Wanted” (Holland), 163–64

war, 65–74, 84, 91

Warren, Earl, 184–85

Washington, George, 68, 84–85, 116, 172, 218, 248, 250

wealth, redistribution of, 24–25, 197, 219, 256

Weber, Louise E., 47

Webster, Daniel, 3–6, 35–36, 42, 78–79

welfare system, welfare state, 16, 18, 22, 50, 62, 95, 96, 103–4, 105–6, 223, 228, 256

Williams, Jack, 163

Willkie, Wendell, 172

Wilson, Woodrow, 18, 41

Winthrop, John, 7

wisdom, 146, 157, 160

Wolfe, Thomas, 33, 61

women, 196, 199, 207, 213, 232, 234, 236, 237, 238, 240, 244, 263

work, 100, 203, 205, 212, 214, 220, 224, 230–31, 252

World War II, 74

Wormser, Rene A., 177–78

youth, 91, 210, 211, 217, 223, 226, 239, 248, 262

zealots, 148

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The Reagan Diaries
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