The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.