Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.

But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

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.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.