George Orwell
  • We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

  • We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

  • Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

  • Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

  • War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.