And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

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.

Zoe let the poetry flow over her, like shadows on water, sunlight against stone: timeworn words shaped like stars, like shells, like the ruins of lost temples, soft as the breaths of mystics.

Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute.

People say, 'I love my wrinkles.' I don't love my wrinkles - come on!

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

My assistants generally do all the flowers and all of the decorative work. I concentrate on the figure.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.

Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.

There are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible. And not a one of them is as good.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don't get hit very often.