I have sworn upon the alter of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines.”

When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.