The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

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.

Never entertain anger. Great people do not become angry over unnecessary issues.

Because the world all twisted up and wrong, like distorted glass, only came back into focus if you looked at it through the bottom of a bottle.

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy not gold.

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.

I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.

I'm not psychic myself.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.

Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think I'll ever retire.

He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off a roof, I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.