Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

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.

A desperate plea to the Trinityis not something you can justapologize for in the morning-Drunk Dialing the Divine

...you betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean...

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.

Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.

We like something because someone else liked it.

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

I believe that, that Christ became sin for us.