And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than this the Anarchist militia, in spite of their indiscipline, were notoriously the best fighters among the purely Spanish forces.

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

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

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.