... to say that the CIA and the KGB engage in similar practices is the equivalent of saying that the man who pushes an old lady into the path of a hurtling bus is not to be distinguished from the man who pushes an old lady out of the path of a hurtling bus: on the grounds that, after all, in both cases someone is pushing old ladies around.

The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

All adventure is now reactionary.

You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.

Why does baloney avoid the grinder?