Isabel Paterson

“The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action”. –Isabel Paterson

Edith Wharton

“True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision”. –Edith Wharton

Léon Blum

“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought”. –Léon Blum

James Thurber

“There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else”. –James Thurber

Ernest Bramah

“A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment”. –Ernest Bramah

Henry Steele Commager

“The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted”. –Henry Steele Commager

George Steinbrenner

“Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next”. –George Steinbrenner

Theodore Dreiser

“If I were to personally define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance”. –Theodore Dreiser

Hugh Kingsmill

“Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude”. –Hugh Kingsmill

Alfred Austin

“Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right”. –Alfred Austin

Gregor Strasser

“We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism, and from the left socialism without internationalism”. –Gregor Strasser

Charles Péguy

“The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors”. –Charles Péguy

Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril”. –Nathaniel Hawthorne

Andrei Grechko

“Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolutionary”. –Andrei Grechko

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth”. –Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Stig Dagerman

“I come to understand what purity is: it means to feel something so wholeheartedly that it shrivels up all doubts, all cowardice and all considerations within one”. –Stig Dagerman

Bill Mauldin

“Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo”. –Bill Mauldin

James Allen

“He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it”. –James Allen

Walter Lippmann

“A State is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and dis-establish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate habits, and to censor opinions. The modern State claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and democrats”. –Walter Lippmann

Paul Harvey

“In times like these, it’s helpful to remember that there have always been times like these”. –Paul Harvey

Susan B. Anthony

“The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South”. –Susan B. Anthony

Vernon Richards

“Violence as a means breeds violence; the cult of personalities as a means breeds dictators — big and small — and servile masses; government — even with the collaboration of socialists and anarchists — breeds more government. Surely then, freedom as a means breeds more freedom, possibly even the Free Society!” –Vernon Richards

Maxim Gorky

“Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man — Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?” –Maxim Gorky

Mary Shelley

“It is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape”. –Mary Shelley

Charles Dickens

“The law is an ass”. –Charles Dickens

Warren G. Harding

“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they’re the ones who keep me walking the floors at night”. –Warren G. Harding

Vyacheslav Molotov

“The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out”. –Vyacheslav Molotov

William Blake

“When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of Convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who Do”. –William Blake

James Larkin

“The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity amongst you”. –James Larkin

William F. Buckley

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views”. –William F. Buckley

Samuel Smiles

“Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform”. –Samuel Smiles

Jesse Helms

“I’ve been portrayed as a caveman by some. That’s not true. I’m a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they Slants, Beaners, or Niggers”. –Jesse Helms

Edward R. Murrow

“All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man”. –Edward R. Murrow

Washington Irving

“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them”. –Washington Irving

David Grayson

“Looking back, I have this to regret; that too often when I loved, I did not say so”. –David Grayson

Karl Kraus

“War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost”. –Karl Kraus

Adlai Stevenson

“Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be”. –Adlai Stevenson

James A. Michener

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home”. –James A. Michener

Leon Trotsky

“A means can be justified only by its end, but the end in its turn needs to be justified”. –Leon Trotsky

Albert Meltzer

“Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated”. –Albert Meltzer

Holbrook Jackson

“Patience has its limits; take it too far and it’s cowardice”. –Holbrook Jackson

Hunter S. Thompson

“I’ve always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it’s a bit like fucking — which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don’t do much giggling”. –Hunter S. Thompson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity”. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

W.E.B. Du Bois

“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity”. –W.E.B. Du Bois

Norman Mailer

“I find now that women have achieved some power and recognition they are quite the equal of men in every stupidity and vice and misjudgment that we’ve exercised throughout history”. –Norman Mailer

Joseph Goebbels

“Our starting point is not the individual. We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or cloth the naked. Our objectives are different; we must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world”. –Joseph Goebbels

Aldous Huxley

“A democracy which makes, or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy”. –Aldous Huxley

Edgar Allan Poe

“The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world”. –Edgar Allan Poe