A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

What else is as beautiful as a woman?

Never build after you are five and forty have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.

It's not annoying if only a couple of people come up. If a bunch of them crowd around me, it's annoying.

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.

Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves.

Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.