It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.