The Power of Speech

• Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind. — George Orwell
• It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
• A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. — St. Augustine
• A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself. — Arthur Miller
• If you're going to tell people the truth, make them laugh or they'll kill you. — George Bernard Shaw
• The adjective is the enemy of the noun. — Voltaire
• Death to the adjective! — Robert Frost
• Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault. — Henry Kissinger [at the peak of his power]
• Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. — Louis Brandis
• All children are lawyers. — Dr. Benjamin Spock [They'll argue immediately and persistently to make their points, if permitted.]