Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

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.

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

That’s the problem with you young people, always thinking everything comes with a price. An act of kindness is just that, nothing more.

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.

Always remember that your success begins inside you: If you can't see it first, no one else ever will.

Not only is he my broadcast partner, but we travel together so much, he's become like my best friend.

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on.

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.