Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

The happy ending is our national belief.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.