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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

The only way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

Power is not a means; it is an end.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. - George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty

In our age, there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.