Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.