The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

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.

Some Churches are heated and cooled 365 days a year. As homeless soldiers lay in alleys and bushes quite near.

If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.

If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.

Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.