“Liberal: a power worshipper without power.”

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.

Rich people are poor people with money.

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.

The object of power is power.

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

I am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

I am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong – this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.

Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

Leaving was the hardest most liberating act of self preservation and self love I did.