It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

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.

It's in the nature of the landscape to change, and it's in the nature of people to help the process along...

The three most powerful seasonings are hunger, variety, and gratitude.

I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.

What will be will be.No one can escape fate's design.

The public always wants to be told.

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.

I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a bad rep.