The land is the chief and the people are its servants.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’

The one hand trying to wash itself is a pitiful spectacle, but when one hand washes the other, power is increased, and it becomes a force to be reckoned with.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil! This is why cities tumble and the houses rain down, this is what scatters armies!

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

A society that tolerates intimidation as a means of settling disputes…loses its moral rights to exist as a social system, and its collapse does not take long to follow.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles in the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

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.