No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism . . . The only way to react is to get up in the morning and start the day by saying four or five vastly politically incorrect things before breakfast!

I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.