The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

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.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.

The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.

Will we confront climate change in time or will we let fossil fuel companies determine our fate? This is a fight we can't afford to lose, and that's what keeps me moving forward.

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.

As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.