If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground-from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.

Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.

As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.