A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.