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The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the knowledge of the Americans which can be attained by a traveller mixing in society in every grade, these prejudices gradually melted away.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

That's the way cultural change works in America: the rest of us discard a prejudice that the Right still clings to; in the fullness of time, the Right comes around, too, deploying clever rationalizations to forget they ever bore the prejudice in the first place.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.