From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

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.

My house feels like home when you're there.

Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.

A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines.

Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

Leading my country out at the World Cup was something I'll never forget.

Tom Hanks hits a new career peak. One of the best films of the year.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.