Whether or not anyone could have done it is not what's important. What is important is whether or not anyone would have done it.

Thoughts, words, ideas and information, free from any bonds or restrictions, is the very concrete which pours out a foundation strong enough that upon which a house, stable and lasting, of true freedom and liberty may be built.

The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.

The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.

There has got to be a point that exists somewhere, when a rational person just has to shake his head and say: 'You know what? Maybe all the crack-pots are right!'

If you want to know what true art is: Go outside on a clear night, wait until it gets very, very dark, then look up! You will see no rules of composition, no evidence of superior technique. Yet, you will be staring into the very face of pure, unadulterated beauty and wonder. That is the unattainable Ideal for which I must constantly strive.

Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria.