To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

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.

Employees who are not engaged have untapped potential that sours like a perishable item.

. . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

As president, I decided that a strong, confident America could advance our national security by engaging directly with the Iranian government. We've seen the results.

Society's the mother of convention.

We would take millions [of undocumented illegal] if they would serve in the military.

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

I'm such a baby if I even get a flu.

P.S. If it's not a secret, will you tell me how you got my dollhouse inside our living room last Christmas? I know its too big to fit down the chimney. I measured.

The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice