If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Those who abjure violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
