Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose