Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.