Good writing is like a windowpane.

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.

We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.

Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.

Art is a delayed echo.

You have to learn to do everything even to die.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

I would say I'm waiting for, I guess, designers to open up their vision.

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

Politics is a continuation of economics by other means

Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.