“People can live without a giant state. We’ve proven that already. But a giant state cannot live without dependent people.”

We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it.

Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.

Joe Biden would probably be running a Denny’s if he wasn’t Vice President.

Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.

They are ruled by appeals to authority. Their self-image and sense of emotional well-being trumps any and all objective evidence to the contrary.

Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of mental death spiral: they search for, and find, those index cards that support their world view, and clutch little red books like rosaries in the face of all external evidence.

There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect.

The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.

You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that that advance the bigger lie by painting a picture inside the viewer’s head. The Ascended High Master of this Dark Art is Noam Chomsky.

I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.

I’ve always been told I have a giant placenta.

You don’t have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don’t need a giant crew. It’s great.

The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.

You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.