Tao Te Ching

“He was a lover of freedom... a paradox. He did not add up... 'All governments lie,' Stone’s maxim, ought to be plastered across every journalist’s desk. But the lesson Stone can offer us today is mostly a reminder that we will have to rise to our own occasion, and not expect heroes from the past to guide our faltering steps”

— Paul Berman 1949 CE –
Insightful political commentator and expert on totalitarianism
from Wall Street Journal, 2006