Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

Never trust machinery more complicated than a knife and fork.

Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.

Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.