No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

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.

Kas was right: a woman could destroy a man. This one could do so, simply by knowing his name. She could do so, simply with her eyes.

Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

True friends don't hold us back spiritually or pull us down when we're trying to rise and progress. True friends protect us. True friends help us be better than we would be on our own.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

If you get rid of all these giveaways and loopholes and deductions and credits, then you can sharply lower the rates.

The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.