I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.

–
Frazier Glenn Miller,

A White Man Speaks Out

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the ‘American civil religion.’ The president must invoke the name of

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the ‘American civil religion.’ The president must invoke the name of God though not Jesus, glorify America’s heroes and history,quote its sacred texts the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum.

–
Jonathan Haidt

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

–
Jonah Goldberg