Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.George Orwell
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.George Orwell
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.George Orwell
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.George Orwell
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.George Orwell
Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.George Orwell
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.George Orwell
