The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from the KGB who had defected to the West that it would be very unsafe for me to go there

I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.

One man with courage makes a majority.

Love is tranquility in the world.

Every moment a beginning. Every moment an end.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Let the others come after us, we welcome the chase

If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

Campaigns are conducted specifically because of the Electoral College, and people accept it and they understand it. Whether they know it or not, they accept it.

Death is the mother of beauty, mystical, Within whose burning bosom we devise Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.