"The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right all alon…"

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."

"The only way to keep a secret is to tell it to no one."

"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."