“Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue is not what various journalists or news organizations' editorial views are. The issue is the transformation of news reporting into ideological spin, along with self-serving taboos and outright fraud.”

“It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.”

“No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?”

“Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.”

“The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.”

“Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.”

“O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.”

“I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.”

“No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.”

“The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.”

“I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.”

“Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods,Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hearOf this vile politician, Bolingbroke.”

“For Brutus is an honourable man;So are they all, all honourable men.”

“Policy sits above conscience.”

“We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.”

“We do what we must, and call it by the best names.”

“We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.”