News is only the first rough draft of history.
Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.
Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious.
The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.