Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity

The busy have no time for tears.

You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

People are so shocked when they find ... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church and I love God and I love my church.

We are human, which means we have the potential to make things different.

Hope is a demon worse than your Pain.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning