The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Apathy's a problem but who cares?

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

To be productive, you must convert every minute of your time.

I never seemed to learn from joy

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

When it comes to cyber conflicts between, say, America and China or even a Middle Eastern nation, an African nation, a Latin American nation, a European nation, we have more to lose.

I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls.

I had to figure out myself to figure out my game.