Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?