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

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another.

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.