I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don't convince me and that our civilization over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice.

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.