One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

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.

Education is not life planning, it is life.

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.

Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction.

The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.

When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

There hasn't been a military force like the United States of America in the history of the world.

It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.

If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers doing business.