In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.

I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.

History is but the polemics of the victor.

Why should any country continue, forever, to be "great"?