Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

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.

Everything you mean to me, I can't put into words, because when you're as perfect as you, no amount of words will do.

We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

We are bound to meet wrong things for wrong things are bound to meet us but, when things go wrong, don't be wrong, let things be wrong

The key to healthy communication is having a willingness to lay aside our defensive tendencies and accept responsibility for our part of the relationship

She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.

I was lucky that I had friends who have maintained a very regular attitude with me and haven't changed how they interact with me.

If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.

Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.

If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is that much richer.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.