Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

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.

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

Are you a terrorist? Or just an idiot?

God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

I don't think you need to sound like from where you're from. But I think there is something magical and powerful about encompassing something fully and singularly.

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

We're all human and life is complicated.

Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.