31 Quotes by I. F. Stone

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

When you’re young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn’t commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called “the significant trifle” – the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation.

The only thing God didn’t do to Job was give him a computer.