To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

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.

Peace is just around the corner, the only problem is the world is round! (created this on 9-11-01 after the WTC crash.)

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

For many, many years I wouldn't sing 'My Way.' It seemed pretentious for me to sing [my father's] song 'My Way.' Now it must be in the show to help us tell the story.

I think aerials is designed for China and I'm happy to be the one to make this a reality.

Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.

Your best friendships are with people who share your world view.

Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.

Wonder. Go on and wonder.