A Cluster of Pithy Quotes

Jay Nordlinger's "Impromptu" columns for National Review are always worth reading. Here he does a review of Roger Kimball's book The Fortunes of Permanence.

From the book he extracts an entire cluster of wonderful quotes attributed to various authors. Let me share some of my favorites with you:

It has long been obvious that ‘multiculturalism’ is an ornate synonym for ‘anti-Americanism.’ It is anti-Americanism on a peculiar moralistic jag. - Kimball
You are either American or you aren’t. Living here is the only entitlement you need. - Roger Ailes
There are simple answers. There are just no easy ones. - Ronald Reagan
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin . . . would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. - Theodore Roosevelt
“No taxation without representation” is a splendid demand. But so is “no immigration without assimilation.” - Kimball

I believe most of those quotes are different ways of gnawing on the same bone.