The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

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.

Joy is not a denial of painful circumstances, but a certainty that He is at work while we are in them. EL

Where there is love there is pain.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.