A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

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.

The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

[C]apitalism--democracy's sidekick

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

This is America. We don't call an election before we know who won. That, after all, is the job of the Supreme Court.

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style of a veteran journalist.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.