The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.