The old freedom sufficiently survives in the mind of the wage earner to give him the illusion that, while accepting insurance and maintenance from the capitalist state, he can still be a full citizen. He thinks he can have his cake and eat it too. He is mistaken. The great capitalists who procured these regulations from the politicians knew what they were at. They were catching their proletariat in a net, and now they hold it fast.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.