Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable.