Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.

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.

The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.

The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is a great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family.

War takes so many more casualties than just the dead.

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.

I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.

There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.

Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy.